Including race in the equation has systematically increased eGFR for Black patients, which could delay clinical care that depends on eGFR thresholds, such as specialist referrals or transplantation, and increase health inequities,” said …
“The underdiagnosis of kidney disease hinders access to treatment which negatively affects health outcomes, and having an accurate eGFR result is essential for managing kidney disease,” said Beatrice Concepcion, MD, associate professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension and…
Fifty-five years after he arrived at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Jacek Hawiger, MD, PhD, Louise B. McGavock Professor and distinguished professor of Medicine, continues to blaze a trail through the wilderness of inflammation.
Among people with HIV infection, three types of CD4+ T helper cells are associated with incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) that are not explained by CVD risk factors, according to a study whose first author is Suman Kundu, DSc.
A clinical trial that will test a novel treatment for asthma has begun enrolling patients.
Donald Brady, MD, Senior Associate Dean for Health Sciences Education for Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM) and Executive Vice President for Educational Affairs for Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has been appointed to an expanded oversight role of Executive Vice Dean for…
Katherine Annis, APRN, FNP-BC, who works at Vanderbilt Breast Center at Vanderbilt Health One Hundred Oaks. and Jane Case, DNP, APRN-BC, who works in Primary Care, finished fiscal year 2022 with a perfect top box score in Patient Experience measures of 100.
Sandra Thomas Walker, MD, will never forget the summer of 1972. She was beginning summer classes at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, studying to be a guidance counselor. Always healthy growing up, she suddenly came down with a persistent fever and chills.
The Vanderbilt Transplant Center is celebrating its 60th anniversary of its first kidney transplant, performed on Oct. 3, 1962. Since then, VUMC has performed more than 7,000 kidney transplants.
The administration of supplemental oxygen has long been one of the most common therapies in the treatment of hospitalized patients. Yet, despite its frequency, there has been little scientific information available about what level of oxygen best optimizes clinical outcomes.
