Your kidney function test results are a measure of how well your kidneys are working to filter your blood and remove excess water and waste from the body. For example, the estimated glomerular ...

The estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) is a blood test to assess kidney function. The formula for calculating eGFR takes the patient’s body size, age, and sex into account to predict how well ...

1 Laboratory for Biometry and Exercise Nutrition, Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium 2 Laboratory of Medical Chemistry, University Erasmus Academic Hospital, Free University of Brussels, ...

Major differences between eGFR based on cystatin C compared with creatinine were associated with higher rates for all-cause mortality, CV events and kidney failure for outpatients, according to data ...

Human kidney cross section on scientific background Using changes in UACR and eGFR as an alternative outcome for kidney failure in trials of CKD progression warrants further evaluation, according to ...

Because race is a social construct, not a physical characteristic, the race coefficient may not be needed to calculate eGFR. Removing the race coefficient could increase the number of black ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A fully automated artificial intelligence approach predicted post-nephrectomy glomerular filtration rate with comparable accuracy as validated clinical prediction models, according ...