Nomenclature for kidney function and disease: report of a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Consensus Conference

Levey, Andrew S.; Eckardt, Kai‐Uwe; Dorman, Nijsje; Christiansen, Stacy; Hoorn, Ewout J.; Ingelfinger, Julie R.; Inker, Lesley A.; Levin, Adeera; Mehrotra, Rajnish; Palevsky, Paul M.; Perazella, Mark A.; Tong, Allison; Allison, Susan J.; Böckenhauer, Detlef; Briggs, Josephine P.; Bromberg, Jonathan S.; Davenport, Andrew; Feldman, Harold I.; Fouque, Denis; Gansevoort, Ron T.; Gill, John S.; Greene, Eddie L.; Hemmelgarn, Brenda R.; Kretzler, Matthias; Lambie, Mark; Lane, Pascale H.; Laycock, Joseph; Leventhal, Shari E.; Mittelman, Michael; Morrissey, Patricia; Ostermann, Marlies; Rees, Lesley; Ronco, Pierre; Schaefer, Franz; Russell, Jennifer St. Clair; Vinck, Caroline; Walsh, Stephen B.; Weiner, Daniel E.; Cheung, Michael; Jadoul, Michel; Winkelmayer­, Wolfgang C.

doi:10.1016/j.kint.2020.02.010

articleKidney InternationalMar 9, 2020HYBRID OA

Nomenclature for kidney function and disease: report of a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Consensus Conference

ASAndrew S. Levey KEKai‐Uwe Eckardt NDNijsje Dorman SCStacy Christiansen EJEwout J. Hoorn

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The worldwide burden of kidney disease is rising, but public awareness remains limited, underscoring the need for more effective communication by stakeholders in the kidney health community. Despite this need for clarity, the nomenclature for describing kidney function and disease lacks uniformity. In June 2019, Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) convened a Consensus Conference with the goal of standardizing and refining the nomenclature used in the English language to describe kidney function and disease, and of developing a glossary that could be used in scientific publications. Guiding principles of the conference were that the revised nomenclature should be patient-centered, precise, and…

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Kidney disease
Medicine
Renal function
Kidney
Intensive care medicine
Glossary
Acute kidney injury
Albuminuria

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