Kidney disease is a severe condition in which your kidneys slowly start to fail. This leads to a build-up of harmful elements in your blood that would otherwise be filtered out through your kidneys.

Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, MD, PhD, MPH Nephrologists should rethink the screening level and offer a more conservative and meaningful cutoff level, such as an eGFR of 45. How often have you been consulted ...

Stage 1 CKD often doesn't cause noticeable symptoms but requires measures to preserve kidney function. Managing high blood ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Measuring cystatin C-based eGFR strongly correlates with creatinine eGFR, but it can also have a significant ...

Adopting a kidney-friendly diet like the DASH or Mediterranean diet and managing sodium, potassium, phosphorus, and protein intake may help improve GFR by reducing kidney strain. Maintaining heart ...

Current equations for estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) that use serum creatinine or cystatin C incorporate age, sex, and race to estimate measured GFR. However, race in eGFR equations is a ...