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“ Whether CKD due to surgical removal of kidney tissue (nephrectomy) is as significant as CKD due to other etiologies remains unclear,” explains Robert J. Ellis, MD, PhD. “The general rationale behind this uncertainty is that...

Patients with CKD with proteinuria and those with CKD stage 5D had 2- and 4-times higher risks for stroke, respectively, than patients without CKD after considering traditional risk factors and competing mortality risk,...

For older adults with CKD, initiation of a sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitor is not associated with higher fracture risk compared with initiation of a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitor, according to a study...