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Andy Stein

What is the Kidney Failure Risk Equation (KFRE)?

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What is the Kidney Failure Risk Equation (KFRE)?

The Kidney Failure Risk Equation is the most accurate and efficient way of finding your risk of needing dialysis or a kidney transplant.

This is the calculator.

You will need 4 pieces of information:

  1. Age
  2. Gender
  3. eGFR (kidney function)
  4. ACR (estimate of protein in the urine).

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MyHSN has a related article on the outlook for CKD.

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