Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Overall, 9,654 patients died of cardiovascular events and 841 died due to kidney failure in the study. Counting ...

Kidney disease is common in adults, and testing for kidney disease is part of routine clinical practice for patients with acute or chronic illness. The initial evaluation includes determination of the ...

Understanding your creatinine levels is important for monitoring kidney function. When you go for your yearly check-up, you’ll likely have a routine blood test for creatinine. In some cases, your ...

Low serum creatinine levels are associated with an increased death risk among patients on peritoneal dialysis (PD), a study found. In addition, a decline in serum creatinine level within the first ...

Lower serum creatinine is a newly identified risk factor for type 2 diabetes, Japanese researchers concluded. They studied 8,570 nondiabetic Japanese men aged 40-55 years at study entry. During a four ...

For patients with acute kidney injury (AKI), dialysis is associated with better survival among those with higher creatinine levels, but higher mortality for those with lower levels, researchers found.