Nephrology

 
New Guidelines Recommend Preconception Screening in Diabetes: Daily Dose
August 04, 2025

Your daily dose of the clinical news you may have missed.

Monu Khanna, MD, on the Unique Role of Primary Care in Managing Cardiometabolic Disease
July 21, 2025

Dr Khanna discusses how PCPs can use patient relationships to tailor lifestyle advice and manage obesity-related cardiometabolic disease.

New Guidelines Recommend Preconception Screening in Diabetes, Universal Testing for Primary Aldosteronism
July 16, 2025

ENDO 2025: The publications reflect growing consensus that integration of endocrine screening into standard clinical workflows is essential for early risk detection and long-term disease prevention.

AstraZeneca's Aldosterone Inhibitor Baxdrostat Effective Against Resistant HTN in Late-Stage Trial
July 14, 2025

Baxdrostat met the primary and all secondary endpoints, setting up a first regulatory filing for the selective aldosterone synthase inhibitor, according to AstraZeneca.

FDA Greenlights Low-Dose Clorthalidone (12.5 mg) for Treatment of Hypertension in Adults
May 08, 2025

Low-dose clorthalidone offers clinicians a new option for initiating treatment that may mitigate well-known metabolic adverse effects.

Tirzepatide Improves Heart Failure Symptoms and Renal Function in People with Obesity, CKD
April 11, 2025

ACC 2025. Tirzepatide improved HF symptoms and renal function in patients with obesity-related HFpEF, regardless of CKD status, according to new findings from the SUMMIT trial.

Aprocitentan Reduces BP in Black Adults with Resistant Hypertension and Lowers Proteinuria
April 09, 2025

Aprocitentan, when added to background therapy of at least 3 antihypertensive agents, led to clinically meaningful and sustained BP reduction in this preplanned subanalysis.

Ozempic Approval Expanded to Include Patients with T2D and CKD: Daily Dose
February 13, 2025

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Lexicon Receives Complete Response Letter for Sotagliflozin in Type 1 Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease
January 03, 2025

In November 2024, an FDA advisory committee said the benefits of sotagliflozin do not outweigh the risks in adults with type 1 diabetes and chronic kidney disease.

Data Published on Sotagliflozin Used to Reduce HbA1c in Adults with Type 1 Diabetes and Kidney Disease
November 07, 2024

The data, published in JASN, were presented last week to an FDA advisory committee considering recommending sotagliflozin as an adjunct to insulin in adults with T1D and CKD.