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Disagreement between two kidney function tests predicts serious health problems - Medical Xpress

Mismatch in Kidney Function Tests Predicts High Risk of Heart Failure and Death

A Critical Discrepancy: Why Two Kidney Tests Are Better Than One For decades, healthcare professionals have relied primarily on a single blood test—serum creatinine (sCr)—to estimate how well the kidneys are filtering waste, a metric known as the estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR). However, a landmark study published by the Chronic Kidney Disease Prognosis Consortium…