Andrew S Levey, Kai-Uwe Eckardt, Nijsje M Dorman, Stacy L Christiansen, Ewout J Hoorn, Julie R Ingelfinger, Lesley A Inker, Adeera Levin, Rajnish Mehrotra, Paul M Palevsky, Mark A Perazella, Allison Tong, Susan J Allison, Detlef Bockenhauer, Josephine P Briggs, Jonathan S Bromberg, Andrew Davenport, Harold I Feldman, Denis Fouque, Ron T Gansevoort, John S Gill, Eddie L Greene, Brenda R Hemmelgarn, Matthias Kretzler, Mark Lambie, Pascale H Lane, Joseph Laycock, Shari E Leventhal, Michael Mittelman, Patricia Morrissey, Marlies Ostermann, Lesley Rees, Pierre Ronco, Franz Schaefer, Jennifer St Clair Russell, Caroline Vinck, Stephen B Walsh, Daniel E Weiner, Michael Cheung, Michel Jadoul, Wolfgang C Winkelmayer
The worldwide burden of kidney disease is rising, but public awareness remains limited, underscoring the need for more effective communication by stakeholders in the kidney health community. Despite this need for clarity, the nomenclature for describing kidney function and disease lacks uniformity. In June 2019, Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) convened a Consensus Conference with the goal of standardizing and refining the nomenclature used in the English language to describe kidney function and disease, and of developing a glossary that could be used in scientific publications...
June 2020: Kidney International