Nephrology
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Biomarkers predict cardiovascular risk in chronic kidney disease patients
New models to stratify atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk may improve shared decision-making.
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No COVID vax, no transplant: Unfair or good medicine?
Is removing them from the list unfair and cruel, or simply business as usual?
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Allopurinol found safe in patients with concomitant gout, CKD
Despite earlier concerns, a study has found no sign of increased mortality with allopurinol therapy in patients with gout and chronic kidney...
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HIV+ patients get good outcomes after kidney or liver transplant
New research further supports the inclusion of people with HIV in transplant resource allocation.
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Finerenone, sotagliflozin exert heart failure benefits despite renal dysfunction
Secondary trial analyses in patients with type 2 diabetes showed both finerenone and sotagliflozin had heart failure benefits across the spectrum...
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SGLT2 inhibitors for diabetes: No link to fractures in older adults
Analysis of Medicare data supports findings from younger adults that use of the drug class does not appear to raise fracture risk.
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What are the cardiorenal differences between type 1 and type 2 diabetes?
Heart failure may be as much, if not more of, a problem in people with type 1 diabetes as type 2 diabetes, researchers suggested.
Conference Coverage
FIDELITY: Finerenone benefits patients with T2D across CKD spectrum
FIDELITY, a prespecified analysis of FIDELIO-DKD and FIGARO-DKD, showed finerenone cuts event rates in patients with normal eGFR and albuminuria...
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FDA okays difelikefalin for dialysis-associated pruritus in patients with CKD
Pruritus in patients with chronic kidney disease on hemodialysis is common and has had no widely accepted go-to treatment.
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U.S. kidney transplants grow in number and success
Data from 1996 to 2019 show more U.S. kidney transplants recently than ever before, and steady improvements in graft and patient survival.