Cardiovascular Risk Prediction with the Kidney Failure Risk Equation in the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Study.
BACKGROUND The Kidney Failure Risk Equation (KFRE) is an established tool to predict the risk of kidney failure among patients with CKD. Patients with CKD more often die from cardiovascular (CV) causes than renal causes, and more often experience a non-fatal CV event than progress to kidney failure. The CV predictive a...