chronic kidney disease

Equitable Access to Medicines Underpins Diabetes and CKD Directive

Equitable Access to Medicines Underpins Diabetes and CKD Directive

The 2022 guideline update published by the KDIGO organization for the care of people with diabetes and chronic kidney disease (CKD) highlighted the safety and expanded, evidence-based role agents from three drug classes: SGLT2 inhibitors, GLP-1 receptor agonists, and nonsteroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists. But this key part of the guideline also underscored the challenges in …

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Study sheds new light on role of RAS inhibitors in advanced CKD

Study sheds new light on role of RAS inhibitors in advanced CKD

ORLANDO, Fla. – Treatment with a renin-angiotensin system (RAS) blocker is widely accepted as standard practice for slowing the progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD), but data is inconsistent about whether there is a benefit in continuing RAS inhibition when patients develop advanced CKD, defined as an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) of less than …

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