Posts Tagged ‘creatinine’

June 5th, 2014

An Adverse Event on Lisinopril: What Do You Say to Your Patient?

In this scenario of an adverse event after taking a guideline-recommended dosage of lisinopril to lower BP, John Ryan asks, “What do you say to your patient?”


April 12th, 2011

Two Studies Try to Improve Risk Prediction for Kidney Disease Progression

Two papers presented at the World Congress of Nephrology and simultaneously published online in JAMA raise hope for better tools to calculate the risk for developing kidney failure, but the techniques are not yet ready for clinical use, according to an accompanying editorial. In the first study, Carmen Peralta and colleagues evaluated a triple-marker strategy combining […]