Patients with advanced chronic kidney disease who have hyper- or hypokalemia are at higher risk for ER visits and hospitalization, especially those with high potassium levels.
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For many years, the universally used equation for estimating risk of kidney disease (the kidney function estimate, Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration [CKD-EPI] equation), included an adjustment for Black race that led to an upward correction in estimated glomerular
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