Chronic Kidney Disease News

• U.S. Supreme Court Rules Against DaVita Over Dialysis Coverage The US Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected kidney dialysis provider DaVita Inc's claims that an Ohio hospital's employee health plan discriminates against patients with end-stage renal disease by reimbursing them at low rates in hopes they would switch to Medicare.
  Reuters Health Information, June 21, 2022
• ADA 2022 Experts Elevate New Drugs for Diabetic Kidney Disease A consensus statement from the ADA and KDIGO recommends more aggressive combined use of several newer, and costly, drug classes to slow progression of diabetic kidney disease.
  Medscape Medical News, June 16, 2022
• Technique Eliminates Need for Prolonged Immunosuppression in Kidney Transplants Doctors at Stanford University School of Medicine in California say they have developed a way to transplant kidneys without the need for long-term immunosuppression.
  Reuters Health Information, June 15, 2022
• 20 Minutes of Daily Vigorous Activity Benefits Teens "Overall, vigorous physical activity for up to 20 minutes was significantly associated with improved cardiorespiratory function."
  Medscape Medical News, June 13, 2022
• Kids With Solid-Organ Transplants Also at Risk for Keratinocyte Carcinoma Children who have received a solid organ transplant are at increased risk of keratinocyte carcinoma, including squamous- and basal-cell carcinoma, new research from Canada indicates.
  Reuters Health Information, June 10, 2022
• ADA 2022 Will Tirzepatide Slow Kidney Function Decline in Type 2 Diabetes? Compared with insulin glargine, tirzepatide was associated with significantly less new-onset macroalbuminuria in patients with type 2 diabetes at high cardiovascular risk but mainly normal kidney function.
  Medscape Medical News, June 03, 2022
• Nighttime Masked Uncontrolled Hypertension Tied to Poor Outcomes in CKD Masked uncontrolled hypertension that occurs overnight is common in the chronic kidney disease population and is associated with left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) and decline in kidney function, new research shows.
  Reuters Health Information, June 03, 2022
• ACMS 2022 Post-Mohs Infections Not Increased in the Immunocompromised
  Medscape Medical News, June 03, 2022
• More Than 1 in 4 Canadian Adults Live With Obesity Obesity has substantially increased in prevalence across all age groups, genders, and Canadian provinces and territories since 2005.
  Medscape Medical News, June 02, 2022
• COVID-19 Vaccines Equally Effective in Patients on Dialysis Two doses of either an mRNA vaccine or the AZ equivalent provide equal and significant protection against severe disease in patients on dialysis who have been infected with COVID-19
  Medscape Medical News, June 01, 2022
• ADA 2022 ADA Updates on Finerenone, SGLT2 Inhibitors, and Race-Based eGFR ADA has made an interim change to its latest Standards of Medical Care, an update based on trial evidence and consensus about finerenone, SGLT2 inhibitors, and eGFR.
  Medscape Medical News, June 01, 2022
• Do SGLT2 Inhibitors Impact Fractures in Diabetic Kidney Disease? Study provides real-world assurance that SGLT2 inhibitors have no added risk of fracture in patients with mainly mild kidney disease after a year of use. But follow-up was short, say experts.
  Medscape Medical News, May 31, 2022
• Screening Finds Albuminuria in 3% of Community Adults Results from a Dutch study of 15,000 community-dwelling adults showed that conventional urine screening had good uptake and found confirmed, meaningful albuminuria in 3%.
  Medscape Medical News, May 27, 2022
• Aim to Reach 'Lofty Goal' of 80% of Dialysis Done at Home Meeting home dialysis goals for 2025 in the US will require establishing systems and policies that address barriers faced by racial and ethnic minorities, say editorialists.
  Medscape Medical News, May 24, 2022
• US Task Force to Consider Routine Kidney Disease Screening An influential US panel has added screening for chronic kidney disease to its list of preventive services under active consideration, a move that could help identify patients eligible for new drugs that treat the disease earlier.
  Reuters Health Information, May 23, 2022
• Aspirin Links With CVD Cut in Patients With Kidney Disease Recent recommendations advise against aspirin for primary prevention of CVD events in people over 59 years old, but when chronic kidney disease is present it looks like a different story.
  Medscape Medical News, May 20, 2022
• Poor Coordination in Care for Vets With Advanced Kidney Disease Veterans with advanced kidney disease often have a tough time getting coordinated care when they are seeing both VA doctors and outside providers, a new study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, May 20, 2022
• US Allows More Baby Formula Imports to Fight Shortage 'The FDA expects measures and steps it's taking with infant formula manufacturers will mean more and more supply is on the way or on store shelves moving forward,' said FDA commissioner Robert Califf.
  Associated Press, May 17, 2022
• Black Veterans Report Stress When Receiving Kidney Care New research suggests that racism in the hospital setting created emotional and physical stress for Black veterans with chronic kidney illness as well as a high level of skepticism toward medicine.
  Medscape Medical News, May 17, 2022
• DDW 2022 NAFLD in Lean Patients Linked to CVD Risk The link between nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and higher risk of cardiovascular disease may extend beyond people who are overweight or living with obesity.
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2022