John H. Eckfeldt

TL;DR: Residual kidney function can be estimated in dialysis patients without urine collections by developing dialysis-specific equations to estimate urinary urea clearance without the need for urine collection, and precision was significantly better for β-trace protein and β2-microglobulin equations and the accuracy was significantly greater than the urea plus creatinine equation.

TL;DR: Results are reported here from a genome-wide linkage analysis of hypertension in a large sample of hypertensive (affected) sibpairs recruited by the HyperGEN Network of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Family Blood Pressure Program (FBPP).

TL;DR: In patients with diabetes, CKD staging based on eGFRcyst significantly improves ESRD risk stratification based on iGFRcreat, and this conclusion can be generalized to patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes and to diabetic patients in the U.S. and Finland.

TL;DR: Results confirm a previously-described TF polymorphism and implicate one potential new locus as a target for gene identification in a population of white male and female veterans screened at a US Veterans Affairs medical center.

TL;DR: Analytes remeasured in samples stored for approximately 25 years were highly correlated with original values, but 2 of the 8 analytes showed substantial bias at multiple visits, demonstrating the importance of consistent recalibration of laboratory assays in a cohort study.