Chronic kidney disease affects more than one in four patients from an outpatient systolic HF population, which is higher than the prevalence of CKD in the general population. Chronic kidney ...

The adjusted HR of death for patients with CKD was 1.29 (95% CI 0.81–2.05), P = 0.27. When each stage of CKD was evaluated individually in the multivariate model, we found a graded increase in ...

“These results suggest that proteinuria is an important marker that should be considered in future revisions of the CKD staging system”. Current methods for staging CKD are primarily based on ...