Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Older adults may have hyperfiltration with normal glomerular filtration rate calculation. GFR calculation may be ...

The symptoms of many kidney diseases are not obvious. When symptoms do appear, there may have been a lot of damage done. For this reason, GFR is regarded as an important early warning marker. Doctors ...

I recently took a call from a new practitioner. She had an 85-year-old diabetic, non-insulin-dependent female with a glomerular filtration rate (GFR) of 45 mL/min/1.73 m 2. The practitioner asked if ...

Pregnancy causes physiological alterations including blood volume expansion due to increased cardiac output and decreased systemic vascular resistance 1,2. Systemic vasodilation and glomerular ...

The definition of hyperfiltration, the main pathogenesis in renal impairment in obesity and diabetes mellitus, is uncertain. Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) declines physiologically with aging, and ...

Working-age adults in Japan with new-onset atrial fibrillation had faster rates of eGFR decline vs. those without, according ...