The 4-variable KFRE score still underestimated the risk for end-stage kidney disease, especially for Black patients. Predicting the risk for end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) using only estimated ...

This limitation of the kidney failure risk equation may affect advanced care planning for the oldest patients with advanced CKD. The widely used Kidney Failure Risk Equation (KFRE) overestimates the ...

The recently introduced and endorsed equation for estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) that foregoes adjustment for self-identified Black individuals worked as well as the race-adjusted version ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In patients with advanced CKD, the kidney failure risk equation and eGFR showed comparable estimates. Estimated ...

A new study reveals that inclusion of a patient's 2-year risk of progression to kidney failure (using the Kidney Failure Risk Equation [KFRE], which incorporates age, sex, urine albumin, and eGFR) as ...

The current kidney transplant waitlisting criterion is based on a single measurement of kidney function (estimated glomerular filtration rate [eGFR] ≤20 ml/min/1.73 m 2) and does not consider an ...