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Lesley A. Inker is affiliated with Tufts Medical Center in the United States and has an extensive research portfolio in the field of medicine, with a particular focus on nephrology. Their body of work includes over 500 publications, spanning several subfields and topics related to kidney function and cardiovascular health.

Inker's research concentrates mainly on nephrology, accounting for more than 200 publications. Additional subfields of study include cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, and physiology. This multidisciplinary approach supports their focus on intersecting medical issues such as chronic kidney disease, diabetes, hypertension, and vascular pathologies.

The main topics of their research encompass:

  • Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes
  • Dialysis and Renal Disease Management
  • Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies
  • Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies
  • Diabetes Treatment and Management
  • Renal and Vascular Pathologies
  • Heart Failure Treatment and Management

Inker's frequent collaborators reflect their network within the nephrology and kidney research community and include:

  • Andrew S. Levey
  • Morgan E. Grams
  • Josef Coresh
  • Jung-Im Shin
  • Alex R. Chang

Their work has been published in several venues specialized in nephrology and related medical fields. Notable publication venues include:

  • Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • American Journal of Kidney Diseases
  • Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
  • Kidney International
  • Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Recent significant papers authored or coauthored by Inker include:

  • "Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990-2019" (2020, Journal of the American College of Cardiology)
  • "KDIGO 2024 Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Management of Chronic Kidney Disease" (2024, Kidney International)
  • "A Unifying Approach for GFR Estimation: Recommendations of the NKF-ASN Task Force on Reassessing the Inclusion of Race in Diagnosing Kidney Disease" (2021, American Journal of Kidney Diseases)
  • "Nomenclature for kidney function and disease: report of a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Consensus Conference" (2020, Kidney International)
  • "A Unifying Approach for GFR Estimation: Recommendations of the NKF-ASN Task Force on Reassessing the Inclusion of Race in Diagnosing Kidney Disease" (2021, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology)

This portfolio illustrates Lesley A. Inker's active involvement in advancing understanding and management of kidney-related diseases and cardiovascular conditions through clinical guidelines, disease nomenclature, and evaluation of global disease burdens.

Best Publications

  • Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019: Update From the GBD 2019 Study

    Gregory A. Roth;George A. Mensah;Catherine O. Johnson;Giovanni Addolorato

  • Estimating glomerular filtration rate from serum creatinine and cystatin C.

    Lesley A. Inker;Christopher H. Schmid;Hocine Tighiouart;John H. Eckfeldt

  • KDOQI US Commentary on the 2012 KDIGO Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Management of CKD

    Lesley A. Inker;Brad C. Astor;Chester H. Fox;Tamara Isakova

  • New Creatinine- and Cystatin C-Based Equations to Estimate GFR without Race.

    Lesley A Inker;Nwamaka D Eneanya;Josef Coresh;Hocine Tighiouart

  • Cystatin C versus creatinine in determining risk based on kidney function.

    Michael G. Shlipak;Kunihiro Matsushita;Johan Ärnlöv;Johan Ärnlöv;Lesley A. Inker

  • Decline in Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate and Subsequent Risk of End-Stage Renal Disease and Mortality

    Josef Coresh;Tanvir Chowdhury Turin;Kunihiro Matsushita;Yingying Sang

  • A Unifying Approach for GFR Estimation: Recommendations of the NKF-ASN Task Force on Reassessing the Inclusion of Race in Diagnosing Kidney Disease.

    Cynthia Delgado;Mukta Baweja;Deidra C. Crews;Nwamaka D. Eneanya

  • Nomenclature for kidney function and disease: report of a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Consensus Conference.

    Andrew S. Levey;Kai-Uwe Eckardt;Nijsje M. Dorman;Stacy L. Christiansen

  • GFR Estimation: From Physiology to Public Health

    Andrew S. Levey;Lesley A. Inker;Josef Coresh

  • GFR decline as an end point for clinical trials in CKD: a scientific workshop sponsored by the National Kidney Foundation and the US Food and Drug Administration.

    Andrew S. Levey;Lesley A. Inker;Kunihiro Matsushita;Tom H Greene

  • Glomerular Filtration Rate and Albuminuria for Detection and Staging of Acute and Chronic Kidney Disease in Adults: A Systematic Review

    Andrew S. Levey;Cassandra Becker;Lesley A. Inker

  • Multinational Assessment of Accuracy of Equations for Predicting Risk of Kidney Failure: A Meta-analysis

    Navdeep Tangri;Morgan E. Grams;Andrew S. Levey;Josef Coresh

  • Drug dosing consideration in patients with acute and chronic kidney disease-a clinical update from Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO).

    Gary R. Matzke;George R. Aronoff;Arthur J. Atkinson;William M. Bennett

  • Change in Albuminuria and GFR as End Points for Clinical Trials in Early Stages of CKD: A Scientific Workshop Sponsored by the National Kidney Foundation in Collaboration With the US Food and Drug Administration and European Medicines Agency.

    Andrew S. Levey;Ron T. Gansevoort;Josef Coresh;Lesley A. Inker

  • Change in albuminuria and subsequent risk of end-stage kidney disease: an individual participant-level consortium meta-analysis of observational studies

    Josef Coresh;Hiddo J L Heerspink;Yingying Sang;Kunihiro Matsushita

  • Change in albuminuria as a surrogate endpoint for progression of kidney disease: a meta-analysis of treatment effects in randomised clinical trials

    Hiddo J L Heerspink;Tom Greene;Hocine Tighiouart;Hocine Tighiouart;Ron T Gansevoort

  • Assessment of Glomerular Filtration Rate in Health and Disease: A State of the Art Review

    AS Levey;LA Inker

  • Expressing the CKD-EPI (Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration) Cystatin C Equations for Estimating GFR With Standardized Serum Cystatin C Values

    Lesley A. Inker;John H Eckfeldt;Andrew S. Levey;Catherine Leiendecker-Foster

  • Risk Prediction Models for Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease: A Systematic Review

    Navdeep Tangri;Georgios D Kitsios;Lesley Ann Inker;John Griffith

  • Measured and estimated glomerular filtration rate: current status and future directions.

    Andrew S. Levey;Josef Coresh;Hocine Tighiouart;Tom Greene

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew S. Levey
Andrew S. Levey Tufts Medical Center
Josef Coresh
Josef Coresh New York University
Morgan E. Grams
Morgan E. Grams Johns Hopkins University
John H. Eckfeldt
John H. Eckfeldt University of Minnesota
Tom Greene
Tom Greene University of Utah
Hiddo J.L. Heerspink
Hiddo J.L. Heerspink University of Groningen
Elizabeth Selvin
Elizabeth Selvin Johns Hopkins University
Harold I. Feldman
Harold I. Feldman University of Pennsylvania
Mark J. Sarnak
Mark J. Sarnak Tufts Medical Center
Michael G. Shlipak
Michael G. Shlipak University of California, San Francisco

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