New test can predict complications from kidney disease

Saturday, December 18, 2010 - 09:00 in Health & Medicine

Cystatin C, a blood marker of kidney function, proved significantly more accurate than the standard blood marker, creatinine, in predicting serious complications of kidney disease, in a study by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Centre and the University of California, San Francisco...

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