Marshall M. Joffe

TL;DR: The authors present a new result of using propensity scores in case-cohort studies and review the uses and limitations of propensity scores and provide a brief outline of associated statistical theory.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors performed a cross-sectional analysis of 3418 patients which included a pooled dataset of clinical trial participants and a clinical population with chronic kidney disease and found that the serum cystatin C and creatinine levels were related to clinical and biochemical parameters and errors-in-variables models were used to account for errors in GFR measurements.

TL;DR: The Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort Study was established to examine risk factors for progression of CRI and CVD among CRI patients and develop models to identify high-risk subgroups, informing future treatment trials, and increasing application of preventive therapies.

TL;DR: Preemptive transplantation of kidneys from living donors without the previous initiation ofdialysis is associated with longer allograft survival than transplantation performed after the initiation of dialysis.

TL;DR: Biomarkers of inflammation were inversely associated with measures of kidney function and positively with albuminuria, and were strongly associated with fibrinogen, serum albumin, IL-6, and TNF-α.