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Kidney function tests: If you get these 4 simple tests done, you can detect kidney disease before the problem worsens!

Kidney Failure Risk: Cases of kidney disease are constantly increasing, and people often take symptoms lightly, which can ...
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Which test tells about kidney problem and how much money does it cost?

The most important test to check the health of the kidney is the kidney function test. It is also called renal function test. In this, the functioning of the kidney is checked on several parameters ...
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Kidney test that considers race as factor coming under new scrutiny

MISSION HILLS, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A medical test for kidney function that adjusts its results for race is coming under increased scrutiny. Experts are saying the results for African-American ...
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6 Blood Tests That Can Tell You How Your Body Is Functioning

Dr. Omar Al-Heeti is an assistant professor of medicine at Southern Illinois University and practices internal medicine with a specialty in infectious diseases. He received his medical degree from the ...
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Rapid kidney test in development for early intervention, simple monitoring

Sanskruti Lakhotia from RMIT's Sir Ian Potter NanoBioSensing Facility holds a bottle of the nanoparticle formula being used to develop Nexsen's kidney diagnostic tests. A simple blood test could ...
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A Racially Biased Test That Prevented Thousands Of Black People From Receiving Kidney Transplants Is Finally Changing

For the past twenty years the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) clinical lab test used to be the gold standard in evaluating “how efficiently a person’s kidneys remove creatinine, a waste ...