Posts Tagged ‘cystatin c’

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 […]