Children's Kidney Disease Study Starts
Posted on: Thursday, 27 July 2006, 12:01 CDT
U.S. scientists are starting the largest study of kidney disease in children, hoping to curb complications and prevent kidney failure.
Johns Hopkins Children's Center researchers say the early progression of chronic kidney disease in children and teenagers is poorly understood.
There has never, to our knowledge, been a study designed to systematically assess the changes in kidney function over time in children with early kidney disease and to determine how these changes affect behavior, learning, heart disease risk and growth, said Dr. Susan Furth, a nephrologist at Johns Hopkins and one of the project's three principal investigators.
The U.S. National Institutes Of Health is funding the 57-center study that is designed to follow during a 4-year period 540 children ages 1 through 16 with mild to moderate kidney disease.
The Johns Hopkins Children's Center and the Children's Hospital at the University of Missouri-Kansas City will coordinate the study. The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is the study's data coordinating center.
An initial report on the study appears in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
Source: United Press International
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