KDpredict uses age, sex, eGFR, and albuminuria to calculate 1-5 year risk of kidney failure and death in chronic kidney disease, outperforming the kidney failure risk equation.
The consensus calls for the recognition of kidney disease as a major non-communicable disease driver of premature mortality by the World Health Organization.
Although the intervention did not reduce risk of CKD progression versus standard care, it addressed barriers to care and increased patients’ exposure to ACEi/ARBs.
Using the National Institutes of Health Toolbox Cognition Battery, results showed greater cognitive dysfunction across certain domains based on sex and CKD stage.