New ABC Chronic Kidney Disease Classification

Chronic kidney disease - new approaches to classification

4 0 6 • H O S P I TA L P H A R M AC I S T Over the past few years the terminology used to describe kidney disease has changed. Previously, as the kidneys became less and less able to do their normal work of cleaning the blood and producing urine from the waste products, patients were said to have chronic renal or kidney failure. The term “end stage renal failure”was used to describe those patie...

Chronic kidney disease: the ABC of nephrology.

1 Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore and Shaw-NKF-Children’s Kidney Centre, The Children’s Medical Institute, National University Hospital, Singapore Address for Correspondence: Dr Yap Hui Kim, Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 5 Lower Kent Ridge, Singapore 119074. To this day, ...

Classification of Chronic Kidney Disease Patients via k-important Neighbors in High Dimensional Metabolomics Dataset

Background: Chronic kidney disease (CKD), characterized by progressive loss of renal function, is becoming a growing problem in the general population. New analytical technologies such as “omics”-based approaches, including metabolomics, provide a useful platform for biomarker discovery and improvement of CKD management. In metabolomics studies, not only prediction accuracy is ...

Vitamin deficiencies in chronic kidney disease

Endocrine disorders in chronic kidney disease

Background and Objective: Endocrine disorders are common in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). The aim of the present study is reviewing available literature to give a deep understanding of complexities of endocrine disorders in chronic kidney disease. Methods: A narrative reviewing method based on the available literature was approached. Findings: Generally, when renal function de...