The estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) is a blood test to assess kidney function. The formula for calculating eGFR takes the patient’s body size, age, and sex into account to predict how well ...

New normative data and a web-based kidney calculator help doctors detect kidney disease early by comparing eGFR scores to age ...

Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate Valuable in Measuring Kidney Function in Gastric Cancer Patients Researchers from Dokkyo Medical University in Japan found that estimated glomerular filtration ...

Subtle abnormalities in kidney function—even within the range considered normal—may help identify people at risk of ...

For the past twenty years the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) clinical lab test used to be the gold standard in evaluating “how efficiently a person’s kidneys remove creatinine, a waste ...

MINNEAPOLIS - Chronic kidney disease is when a person's kidneys progressively lose their ability to filter waste from the blood and eliminate fluids. Now a new study has found that people with reduced ...

A controversial recommendation to adjust kidney test results based on a person’s ethnicity has been removed from UK medical guidance. Kidney function is routinely assessed using an equation that ...