The 2015 AJKD Editorial Board Meeting
Just before Kidney Week, the AJKD editorial office turns a critical eye upon itself and reviews key journal metrics for the past year. The verdict for 2015 could have been [...]
Commentary
Commentaries are short perspectives by experts on AJKD articles or nephrology news.
AKI Biomarkers in Nicaraguan Sugarcane Workers
Mesoamerican Nephropathy is a CKD epidemic in Central America affecting predominantly outdoor agricultural workers. The pattern of injury is a chronic tubulo-interstitial [...]
Quality Over Quantity: Cholesterol Confounding in Chronic Kidney Conditions
Although cardiovascular disease accounts for the largest proportion of deaths in both the chronic kidney disease (CKD) and the dialysis populations, interventions to prevent [...]
The 2015 KDOQI Hemodialysis Adequacy Guideline Update—What’s New
The 2015 Hemodialysis Adequacy Guideline Update from KDOQI is the next iteration of guidelines from the 2006 report. The document covers a number of important topics to guide [...]
An Unexpected Gap: Effects of Salicylates and Other Conditions on the Serum Anion Gap
In an article recently published in AJKD, Dr. Michael Emmett reported a case of salicylate poisoning in association with a negative serum anion gap. Salicylate poisoning is [...]
Vitamin D Status and Risk of ESRD, More to the Puzzle…
Disordered mineral metabolism is known to occur in kidney disease. It is belived that lower 1 alfa hydroxylase reduces conversion of vitamin D [25(OH)D] to [1,25(OH)2D], [...]
PPI and Kidney Disease: AIN and Hypomagnesemia
Since the first introduction of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) in 1989, their high efficacy and low side effect profile has led to their becoming one of the most widely [...]
The Beginning of A New Era In ADPKD
Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is the fourth most common cause of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in the United States. The course of the disease is [...]
NKF Call for Research Grant Applications
The National Kidney Foundation supports early-career researchers in the United States through its Satellite Dialysis Clinical Investigator Grant and Young Investigator [...]
Warfarin and Hemodialysis
In an article recently published in the October issue of AJKD, Shen et al report the results of a retrospective observational cohort analysis of clinical outcomes following [...]