Battle brews over screening for asymptomatic kidney disease

Dr. Cooke said the ACP was calling for a "middle ground" to bring the discussion back to what is best for the patient, not the practitioner.

"We are saying that unless the patient has a reason for you to be concerned, other than the fact that they are a human being, there is no reason to screen for CKD every year," she explained. "There is no evidence that diagnosing the average person on the street as stage 1 or 2 [CKD] does them any good if they don’t have any risk factors."

The American College of Physicians funded the guidelines. The guidelines’ authors had no relevant disclosures.

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