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Emerging risk factors and markers of chronic kidney disease progression

Florian Kronenberg

The identification of new predictive markers might improve our understanding of the pathogenesis and progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD). In this Review, Florian Kronenberg discusses various emerging factors and markers for which epidemiological evidence from prospective studies has shown an association with CKD progression.

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DIABETES: RAS inhibition: probably not a one-size-fits-all approach

Drazenka Pongrac Barlovic & Mark E. Cooper

Blockade of the renin–angiotensin system does not seem to prevent early nephropathy in individuals with type 1 diabetes who are normoalbuminuric and normotensive, but both the angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitor enalapril and the angiotensin-receptor blocker losartan seem to retard retinopathy.

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Dialysis-requiring acute renal failure increases the risk of progressive chronic kidney disease

Lowell J Lo, Alan S Go, Glenn M Chertow, Charles E McCulloch, Dongjie Fan, Juan D Ordoñez and Chi-yuan Hsu

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