Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects nearly 36 million people. “CKD is a real public health crisis, and one that’s steadily rising,” said Merlin Thomas, M.B.Ch.B., Ph.D., FRACP, a professor of ...

Complement 3 glomerulopathy (C3G) is a rare kidney disease that affects your body’s innate immune system (complement system). Complement 3 glomerulopathy (C3G) is a kidney disease that’s caused by ...

The human body can survive weeks without food, but only days without water. Yet millions of people walk around in a state of chronic dehydration, completely unaware that their kidneys are slowly ...

In patients with chronic kidney disease, the loss of podocytes—part of the kidney's glomerular filtration barrier—causes irreversible disease progression. So far, physicians and researchers have found ...

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 ...

Results show that it may be beneficial to add longitudinal monitoring of kidney function to the management of patients with MDS. Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are associated with a substantially ...

Dialysis or a kidney transplant is needed for kidney failure to help you live longer. Early symptoms like fatigue and nausea ...

Adults with prediabetes were more than twice as likely as those with normal glucose levels to experience a faster decline in kidney function over time, according to new data from a long-term ...