Blood test reports often feel like a maze of unfamiliar terms. But, two markers hold a lot of meaning: uric acid and ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 73-year-old female. A recent blood test returned an eGFR (estimated glomerular filtration rate) of 59. My physician’s nurse told me that the test was normal. When I asked her ...

Record numbers of men and women globally are now estimated to have reduced kidney function, a new study shows. Figures rose from 378 million people with the disease in 1990 to 788 million in 2023 as ...

An important finding from the study concerns a gene called APOL1. Two variants of the APOL1 gene, known as G1 and G2, ...