Use of urine biomarker-derived clusters to predict the risk of chronic kidney disease and all-cause mortality in HIV-infected women

Conclusions
For predicting incident CKD in HIV-infected women, clusters developed from three urine-based kidney disease biomarkers were as effective as an eight-marker panel in improving risk discrimination.

Source: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation - September 1, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Scherzer, R., Lin, H., Abraham, A., Thiessen-Philbrook, H., Parikh, C. R., Bennett, M., Cohen, M. H., Nowicki, M., Gustafson, D. R., Sharma, A., Young, M., Tien, P., Jotwani, V., Shlipak, M. G. Tags: Chronic Kidney Disease Source Type: research