African Research on Kidney Disease (ARK) Consortium study finds widely used kidney function tests underestimate scale of kidney disease in Africa (IMAGE)

University of the Witwatersrand

African Research on Kidney Disease (ARK) Consortium study finds widely used kidney function tests underestimate scale of kidney disease in Africa

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A study by the African Research on Kidney Disease Consortium has found that widely-used kidney function tests underestimate the scale of kidney disease in Africa.

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University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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