Article: BioTrends Releases Quarterly TreatmentTrends: Nephrology Report Highlighting Market Trends for Renal Anemia, Hyperphosphatemia, and Secondary Hyperparathyroidism.

Article: New Study by BioTrends Highlights Anemia Practice Patterns ...
PR Newswire;  September 11, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... PRNewswire/ -- BioTrends Research Group, Inc. is pleased to ... Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) patients, and qualitative ... equal to 10g/dL). For CKD patients who do receive ... Managers working with CKD patients is the ability ... FDA. About BioTrends Research Group, Inc. BioTrends ...

Article: CKD education: an evolving concept.(Practice Issues in ...
Nephrology Nursing Journal;  May 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... to people with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Education mainly focused on increasing ... Outcomes Quality Initiative (K/DOQI) CKD clinical practice guidelines (see Table ... chronic disease (NKF, 2002). In 2006, CKD was further identified as a public health ...

Article: CKD screening lags in many nations: a conservative ...
Renal & Urology News;  November 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...CKD IS ARGUABLY emerging as a major threat to the ... used deliberately because while we know that CKD in the United States affects approximately ... one were to conservatively extrapolate the CKD prevalence rate to countries in South Asia ...

Article: CKD staging criteria debated: widely used criteria may ...
Renal & Urology News;  October 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] TWO NEPHROLOGISTS believe CKD is being overdiagnosed in the United States ... Initiative (K/DOQI) criteria for staging CKD include flaws, the most serious of which ... labeling of many elderly people as having CKD stage 3. Richard Glassock, MD, emeritus ...

Article: CKD increases risk for cardiovascular ...
Internal Medicine News;  December 15, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... who had stage 2 or 3 chronic kidney disease (CKD) with the rest of the study population. of the CKD patients, 58% had diabetes, 11% were African American, and 50% were men. CKD was defined as an estimated glomerular filtration ...

Article: CKD: why you play a crucial role; Primary-care physicians ...
Cortlandt Forum;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... suffering from chronic kidney disease (CKD)? Kidney function has traditionally been ... see page 32), or from stage 3 to stage 4 CKD. Both stages reflect moderately advanced kidney disease. The current rates of CKD represent an epidemic of enormous proportions ...

Article: Recognizing the link between CKD and CVD in the primary ...
Southern Medical Journal;  May 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Abstract: Chronic kidney disease (CKD), which is becoming increasingly prevalent ... hypertension, the two leading causes of CKD, are themselves reaching near epidemic ... both the development and progression of CKD, and CKD is a significant risk factor for ...