BACKGROUND In the United States, HIV-related kidney disease disproportionately affects individuals of African descent; however, there are few estimates of kidney disease prevalence in Africa. We evaluated the prevalence of kidney disease among HIV-infected and uninfected Rwandan women. METHODS The Rwandan Women's Interassociation Study and Assessment prospectively enrolled 936 women. Associat...

BACKGROUND During the past decade, a trend has been observed in the United States toward initiation of chronic dialysis at higher levels of estimated glomerular filtration rate. This likely reflects secular trends in the composition of the dialysis population and a tendency toward initiation of dialysis earlier in the course of kidney disease. METHODS The goal of this study was to generate mo...

With the recent attention to diagnose earlier stages of chronic kidney diseases (CKD), most attention focuses on screening for an impaired estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), i.e. CKD stages 3-5. Less attention is given to the impact of the urinary leakage of albumin. Its presence is not taken into account in the definition of stages 3-5, but only required to diagnose stages 1 and 2. A...