Conversion of Urine Protein-Creatinine Ratio or Urine Dipstick Protein to Urine Albumin-Creatinine Ratio for Use in Chronic Kidney Disease Screening and Prognosis : An Individual Participant-Based Meta-analysis.

Link: https://doi.org/10.7326/M20-0529 Authors: Sumida, Keiichi; Nadkarni, Girish N; Grams, Morgan E; Sang, Yingying; Ballew, Shoshana H; Coresh, Josef; Matsushita, Kunihiro; Surapaneni, Aditya; Brunskill, Nigel; Chadban, Steve J; Chang, Alex R; Cirillo, Massimo; Daratha, Kenn B; Gansevoort, Ron T; Garg, Amit X; Iacoviello, Licia; Kayama, Takamasa; Konta, Tsuneo; Kovesdy, Csaba P; Lash, James; Lee, Brian J;…

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Derivation and validation of genome-wide polygenic score for urinary tract stone diagnosis.

Link: https://doi.org/S0085-2538(20)30641-4 Authors: Paranjpe, Ishan; Tsao, Noah; Judy, Renae; Paranjpe, Manish; Chaudhary, Kumardeep; Klarin, Derek; Forrest, Iain; O’Hagan, Ross; Kapoor, Arjun; Pfail, John; Jaladanki, Suraj; Chaudhry, Fayzan; Vaid, Akhil; Duy, Phan Q; , ; , ; He, John Cijiang; Glicksberg, Benjamin S; Coca, Steven G; Gupta, Mantu; Do, Ron; Damrauer, Scott M; Nadkarni, Girish N…

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Acute Kidney Injury in Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.04.20090944 Authors: Chan, Lili; Chaudhary, Kumardeep; Saha, Aparna; Chauhan, Kinsuk; Vaid, Akhil; Baweja, Mukta; Campbell, Kirk; Chun, Nicholas; Chung, Miriam; Deshpande, Priya; Farouk, Samira S; Kaufman, Lewis; Kim, Tonia; Koncicki, Holly; Lapsia, Vijay; Leisman, Staci; Lu, Emily; Meliambro, Kristin; Menon, Madhav C; Rein, Joshua L; Sharma, Shuchita; Tokita, Joji; Uribarri, Jaime; Vassalotti, Joseph A;…

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Global, regional, and national burden of chronic kidney disease, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017.

Link: https://doi.org/S0140-6736(20)30045-3 Authors: , Abstract: Health system planning requires careful assessment of chronic kidney disease (CKD) epidemiology, but data for morbidity and mortality of this disease are scarce or non-existent in many countries. We estimated the global, regional, and national burden of CKD, as well as the burden of cardiovascular disease and gout attributable to…

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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Pregnancy-Related Acute Kidney Injury.

Link: https://doi.org/10.34067/KID.0000102019 Authors: Beers, Kelly; Wen, Huei Hsun; Saha, Aparna; Chauhan, Kinsuk; Dave, Mihir; Coca, Steven; Nadkarni, Girish; Chan, Lili Abstract: Pregnancy-related AKI (PR-AKI) is increasing in the United States. PR-AKI is associated with adverse maternal outcomes. Disparities in racial/ethnic differences in PR-AKI by race have not been studied. This was a retrospective cohort study…

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Natural language processing of electronic health records is superior to billing codes to identify symptom burden in hemodialysis patients.

Link: https://doi.org/S0085-2538(19)31116-0 Authors: Chan, Lili; Beers, Kelly; Yau, Amy A; Chauhan, Kinsuk; Duffy, Áine; Chaudhary, Kumardeep; Debnath, Neha; Saha, Aparna; Pattharanitima, Pattharawin; Cho, Judy; Kotanko, Peter; Federman, Alex; Coca, Steven G; Van Vleck, Tielman; Nadkarni, Girish N Abstract: Symptoms are common in patients on maintenance hemodialysis but identification is challenging. New informatics approaches including natural…

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Target genes, variants, tissues and transcriptional pathways influencing human serum urate levels.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-019-0504-x Authors: Tin, Adrienne; Marten, Jonathan; Halperin Kuhns, Victoria L; Li, Yong; Wuttke, Matthias; Kirsten, Holger; Sieber, Karsten B; Qiu, Chengxiang; Gorski, Mathias; Yu, Zhi; Giri, Ayush; Sveinbjornsson, Gardar; Li, Man; Chu, Audrey Y; Hoppmann, Anselm; O’Connor, Luke J; Prins, Bram; Nutile, Teresa; Noce, Damia; Akiyama, Masato; Cocca, Massimiliano; Ghasemi, Sahar; van der Most,…

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