Despite their higher risk of chronic kidney disease, people with hypertension or diabetes usually are not given a simple test for protein in the urine to screen for this potentially deadly disorder, ...

Large study suggests that urine test for detecting chronic kidney disease is not used enough in high-risk groups such as people with hypertension or diabetes Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public ...

Dr Arora said this test can detect kidney damage 5 years earlier than standard blood work, so discuss it with your doctor if ...

Early kidney damage is silent but preventable routine blood and urine tests catch it before symptoms.

Only 1 in 15 urine dipstick tests showing proteinuria in the primary care setting are followed up with albuminuria quantification testing, according to investigators. These findings expose a broad gap ...