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Paul L. Kimmel is affiliated with the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine, with significant contributions to the subfields of Nephrology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Molecular Biology, and Epidemiology.

The scientist's work covers multiple main topics including Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes, Dialysis and Renal Disease Management, Acute Kidney Injury Research, Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies, Heart Failure Treatment and Management, Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies, and Renal and Vascular Pathologies.

Paul L. Kimmel has authored numerous publications in several frequent venues:

  • Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • American Journal of Kidney Diseases
  • Kidney International
  • Kidney360

Recent papers by Paul L. Kimmel include:

  • Biomarkers of inflammation and repair in kidney disease progression, 2020, Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • Post-Acute Kidney Injury Proteinuria and Subsequent Kidney Disease Progression, 2020, JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Association Between Early Recovery of Kidney Function After Acute Kidney Injury and Long-term Clinical Outcomes, 2020, JAMA Network Open
  • A prospective cohort study of acute kidney injury and kidney outcomes, cardiovascular events, and death, 2020, Kidney International
  • Association of Multiple Plasma Biomarker Concentrations with Progression of Prevalent Diabetic Kidney Disease: Findings from the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) Study, 2020, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Chirag R. Parikh
  • Ramachandran S. Vasan
  • Steven G. Coca
  • Alan S. Go
  • Jonathan Himmelfarb

Best Publications

  • K/DOQI clinical practice guidelines for chronic kidney disease: Evaluation, classification, and stratification

    Andrew S. Levey;Josef Coresh;Kline Bolton;Bruce Culleton

  • A Randomized Trial of Intensive versus Standard Blood-Pressure Control

    Jackson T. Wright;Jeff D. Williamson;Paul K. Whelton;Joni K. Snyder

  • Acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease as interconnected syndromes

    Lakhmir S. Chawla;Paul W. Eggers;Robert A. Star;Paul L. Kimmel

  • Acute Kidney Injury Increases Risk of ESRD among Elderly

    Areef Ishani;Jay L. Xue;Jonathan Himmelfarb;Paul W. Eggers

  • Effect of Intensive vs Standard Blood Pressure Control on Probable Dementia: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

    Jeff D. Williamson;Nicholas M. Pajewski;Alexander P. Auchus

  • Incidence and Mortality of Acute Renal Failure in Medicare Beneficiaries, 1992 to 2001

    Jay L. Xue;Frank Daniels;Robert A. Star;Paul L. Kimmel

  • Acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease: An integrated clinical syndrome

    Lakhmir S. Chawla;Paul L. Kimmel;Paul L. Kimmel

  • The severity of acute kidney injury predicts progression to chronic kidney disease

    Lakhmir S. Chawla;Richard L. Amdur;Richard L. Amdur;Susan Amodeo;Paul L. Kimmel;Paul L. Kimmel

  • APOL1 Genetic Variants in Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis and HIV-Associated Nephropathy

    Jeffrey B. Kopp;George W. Nelson;Karmini Sampath;Randall C. Johnson;Randall C. Johnson

  • MYH9 is a major-effect risk gene for focal segmental glomerulosclerosis

    Jeffrey B Kopp;Michael W Smith;George W Nelson;Randall C Johnson

  • MYH9 is associated with nondiabetic end-stage renal disease in African Americans

    W H Linda Kao;Michael J Klag;Lucy A Meoni;David Reich;David Reich

  • Immunologic function and survival in hemodialysis patients

    Paul L. Kimmel;Terry M. Phillips;Terry M. Phillips;Terry M. Phillips;Samuel J. Simmens;Samuel J. Simmens;Samuel J. Simmens;Rolf A. Peterson;Rolf A. Peterson;Rolf A. Peterson

  • Psychosocial factors, behavioral compliance and survival in urban hemodialysis patients

    Paul L. Kimmel;Rolf A. Peterson;Karen L. Weihs;Samuel J. Simmens

  • Psychosocial factors in dialysis patients

    Paul L. Kimmel

  • Survival in hemodialysis patients: the role of depression.

    Paul L. Kimmel;Karen Weihs;Rolf A. Peterson

  • Depression and anxiety in urban hemodialysis patients.

    Daniel Cukor;Jeremy Coplan;Clinton Brown;Steven Friedman

  • Renal structure in early autosomal-dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD): The Consortium for Radiologic Imaging Studies of Polycystic Kidney Disease (CRISP) cohort.

    Arlene B. Chapman;Lisa M. Guay-Woodford;Jared J. Grantham;Vicente E. Torres

  • Outcomes following diagnosis of acute renal failure in U.S. veterans: focus on acute tubular necrosis.

    Richard L. Amdur;Lakhmir S. Chawla;Susan Amodeo;Paul L. Kimmel;Paul L. Kimmel

  • K/DOQI clinical practice guidelines for chronic kidney disease

    Andrew S. Levey;Josef Coresh;Kline Bolton;Bruce Culleton

  • Depression is an important contributor to low medication adherence in hemodialyzed patients and transplant recipients

    Daniel Cukor;Deborah S. Rosenthal;Deborah S. Rosenthal;Rahul M. Jindal;Clinton D. Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

Rolf A. Peterson
Rolf A. Peterson George Washington University
Karen L. Weihs
Karen L. Weihs University of Arizona
Jeffrey B. Kopp
Jeffrey B. Kopp National Institutes of Health
John W. Kusek
John W. Kusek National Institutes of Health
Tom Greene
Tom Greene University of Utah
Alfred K. Cheung
Alfred K. Cheung University of Utah
Chi-yuan Hsu
Chi-yuan Hsu University of California, San Francisco
Alan S. Go
Alan S. Go Kaiser Permanente
Michael J. Klag
Michael J. Klag Johns Hopkins University
Cheryl A. Winkler
Cheryl A. Winkler National Institutes of Health

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