If kidney failure occurs, patients may need dialysis several times a week or a kidney transplant to survive. Global health ...

Kidney disease often creeps in silently, and many patients aren’t diagnosed until major damage is already done. New research ...

A GFR of over 90 is considered normal. But having a GFR of 60 or above may also be considered within the normal range if you do not have other signs of kidney disease. Diabetes is a long-term (chronic ...

Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with advertisers on this site. Scientists are developing new ways of evaluating kidney health that don’t make potentially harmful assumptions based on ...

A new international study has cautioned that kidney test results labelled as “normal” may still conceal early signs of ...

Identifying population-based eGFR distributions may help to identify patients at risk for developing chronic kidney disease earlier, according to study data published in Kidney International. More ...

Even "normal" kidney test results may mask hidden risks if theyre unusually low for your age and sex, signaling higher ...

A novel test that estimates the risk of a patient with type 2 diabetes developing end-stage kidney disease significantly outperformed more conventional risk-prediction methods in studies that used ...