Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Senior Investigator in the Section on Genetics and Epidemiology at Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, MA. To facilitate translational research on ...

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 ...

Protein supplements are now mainstream, but concerns about kidney health persist. For individuals with healthy kidneys, high ...

A mismatch between two common tests for kidney function may indicate a higher risk for kidney failure, heart disease, and death, a new study shows. Health care providers for decades have measured ...

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 ...

Albuminuria and estimates of glomerular filtration rate remain the main diagnostic and monitoring metrics used in people with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Although these are both useful markers of ...

We investigated the association between blood pressure (BP) and renal function decline (RFD) in individuals with preserved kidney function (estimated glomerular filtration rate [eGFR] ≥60 mL/min/1.73 ...

Among the greatest risks to your kidneys are uncontrolled diseases and medical disorders, such as diabetes and hypertension (2). If you have diabetes or pre-diabetes, control your blood sugar levels.