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Adeera Levin is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a primary focus on nephrology. Their research encompasses multiple subfields including endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, surgery, infectious diseases, and public health.

The scientist's work centers around key topics such as dialysis and renal disease management, chronic kidney disease and diabetes, diabetes treatment and management, pancreatic function and diabetes, healthcare cost, quality and practices, COVID-19 clinical research studies, and renal diseases and glomerulopathies.

They have published in a variety of scientific journals, with frequent publications in:

  • Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease
  • Kidney International Reports
  • Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • Kidney International Supplements
  • Kidney International

Recent noteworthy papers by Adeera Levin include:

  • KDIGO 2024 Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Management of Chronic Kidney Disease, 2024, Kidney International
  • Empagliflozin in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease, 2022, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Plasma Exchange and Glucocorticoids in Severe ANCA-Associated Vasculitis, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Nomenclature for kidney function and disease: report of a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Consensus Conference, 2020, Kidney International
  • An update on the global disparities in kidney disease burden and care across world countries and regions, 2024, The Lancet Global Health

Adeera Levin has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Vivekanand Jha
  • Meg Jardine
  • Vlado Perkovic
  • Hiddo J.L. Heerspink
  • Ikechi G. Okpechi

The scope of their research in nephrology and related disciplines reflects a multidisciplinary approach, integrating clinical and public health perspectives to address the challenges in kidney disease treatment and management. Their contributions to guidelines and clinical trials demonstrate involvement in advancing consensus standards and therapeutics within the nephrology community.

Best Publications

  • Acute Kidney Injury Network: Report of an Initiative to Improve Outcomes in Acute Kidney Injury

    Ravindra L Mehta;John A Kellum;Sudhir V Shah;Bruce A Molitoris

  • Canagliflozin and Renal Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes and Nephropathy

    Vlado Perkovic;Vlado Perkovic;Meg J. Jardine;Meg J. Jardine;Bruce Neal;Bruce Neal;Bruce Neal;Severine Bompoint

  • Definition and classification of chronic kidney disease: A position statement from Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO)

    Andrew S. Levey;Kai-Uwe Eckardt;Yusuke Tsukamoto;Adeera Levin

  • NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION PRACTICE GUIDELINES FOR CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE: EVALUATION, CLASSIFICATION, AND STRATIFICATION

    Andrew S. Levey;Josef Coresh;Ethan Balk;Annamaria T. Kausz

  • The effects of lowering LDL cholesterol with simvastatin plus ezetimibe in patients with chronic kidney disease (Study of Heart and Renal Protection): a randomised placebo-controlled trial

    Colin Baigent;Martin J Landray;Christina Reith;Jonathan Emberson

  • Kidney disease: improving global outcomes (KDIGO) CKD work group. KDIGO 2012 clinical practice guideline for the evaluation and management of chronic kidney disease

    A Levin;PE Stevens;RW Bilous;J Coresh

  • Chronic kidney disease as a global public health problem: Approaches and initiatives – a position statement from Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes

    A.S. Levey;R. Atkins;J. Coresh;E.P. Cohen

  • Prevalence of abnormal serum vitamin D, PTH, calcium, and phosphorus in patients with chronic kidney disease: results of the study to evaluate early kidney disease.

    A. Levin;G. L. Bakris;Mark E Molitch;M. Smulders

  • Bone metabolism and disease in chronic kidney disease

    Garabed Eknoyan;Adeera Levin;Nathan W Levin

  • A Predictive Model for Progression of Chronic Kidney Disease to Kidney Failure

    Navdeep Tangri;Lesley A. Stevens;John Griffith;Hocine Tighiouart

  • Evolving importance of kidney disease: from subspecialty to global health burden

    Kai Uwe Eckardt;Josef Coresh;Olivier Devuyst;Richard J. Johnson

  • Left ventricular mass index increase in early renal disease: impact of decline in hemoglobin.

    Adeera Levin;Christopher R. Thompson;Jean Ethier;Euan J.F. Carlisle

  • Association of kidney function with anemia: the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1988-1994).

    Brad C. Astor;Paul Muntner;Adeera Levin;Joseph A. Eustace

  • Prevalent left ventricular hypertrophy in the predialysis population: Identifying opportunities for intervention☆☆☆

    Adeera Levin;Joel Singer;Christopher R. Thompson;Heather Ross

  • Global kidney health 2017 and beyond: a roadmap for closing gaps in care, research, and policy

    Adeera Levin;Marcello Tonelli;Joseph Bonventre;Josef Coresh

  • Lower estimated glomerular filtration rate and higher albuminuria are associated with mortality and end-stage renal disease. A collaborative meta-analysis of kidney disease population cohorts

    Brad C. Astor;Kunihiro Matsushita;Ron T. Gansevoort;Marije Van Der Velde

  • National Kidney Foundation's Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative clinical practice guidelines for chronic kidney disease in children and adolescents: evaluation, classification, and stratification.

    Ronald J. Hogg;Susan Furth;Susan Furth;Kevin V. Lemley;Ronald Portman

  • The burden of kidney disease: Improving global outcomes

    Garabed Eknoyan;Norbert Lameire;Rashad Barsoum;Kai-Uwe Eckardt

  • SGLT2 inhibitors for the prevention of kidney failure in patients with type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Brendon L Neuen;Tamara Young;Hiddo J L Heerspink;Hiddo J L Heerspink;Bruce Neal;Bruce Neal;Bruce Neal

  • Age and Association of Kidney Measures With Mortality and End-stage Renal Disease

    Stein I. Hallan;Kunihiro Matsushita;Yingying Sang;Bakhtawar K. Mahmoodi;Bakhtawar K. Mahmoodi

Frequent Co-Authors

David C. Wheeler
David C. Wheeler University College London
Vivekanand Jha
Vivekanand Jha George Institute for Global Health
Vlado Perkovic
Vlado Perkovic George Institute for Global Health
Marcello Tonelli
Marcello Tonelli University of Calgary
Bruce Neal
Bruce Neal George Institute for Global Health
Hiddo J.L. Heerspink
Hiddo J.L. Heerspink University of Groningen
Dick de Zeeuw
Dick de Zeeuw University of Groningen
Josef Coresh
Josef Coresh New York University
Andrew S. Levey
Andrew S. Levey Tufts Medical Center
David Harris
David Harris University of Sydney

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