{"id":5301,"date":"2022-08-20T06:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=5301"},"modified":"2022-08-18T15:58:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T22:58:16","slug":"age-related-kidney-function-loss-differs-significantly-by-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2022\/08\/20\/age-related-kidney-function-loss-differs-significantly-by-gender\/","title":{"rendered":"Age-Related Kidney Function Loss Differs Significantly by Gender"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"5301\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>\u2014 Age- and sex-adjusted definitions of chronic kidney disease may be necessary, researchers say<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A population-based study investigating gender differences in kidney function found that women had lower function at baseline, but that men&#8217;s function declined faster, especially at older ages. The results suggest the need for age- and sex-adjusted definitions of kidney disease, the researchers said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among 1,837 people ages 50-62, who were representative of the general population, the mean glomerular filtration rates (GFR) at baseline were 90 and 98 mL\/min\/1.73 m<sup>2<\/sup>\u00a0for women and men, respectively (<em>P<\/em>&lt;0.001).  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/nephrology\/esrd\/100271?xid=nl_mpt_morningbreak2022-08-18&amp;eun=g2017571d0r&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MorningBreak_081822&amp;utm_term=NL_Gen_Int_Daily_News_Update_active\">Read the full story<\/a> in MedPage Today.<\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"5301\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading \u2014 Age- and sex-adjusted definitions of chronic kidney disease may be necessary, researchers say A population-based study investigating gender differences in kidney function found that women had lower function &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2022\/08\/20\/age-related-kidney-function-loss-differs-significantly-by-gender\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Age-Related Kidney Function Loss Differs Significantly by Gender&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":1038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_ecp_custom_2":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,2],"tags":[929],"post_format":[],"Dislikes":"","Likes":"","simplefavorites_count":"","views":"1192","post_likes_plusCounter":"1","post_dislikes_plusCounter":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5302,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301\/revisions\/5302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5301"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=5301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}