A group of 25 new PhD scholars based in five African countries will be paired with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and other partner institutions, thanks to new £1.5 million funding from the Hamish Ogston Foundation.
2022-07 - Widely-used kidney function tests underestimate scale of kidney disease in Africa wits.ac.za - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wits.ac.za Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A commonly used blood test which measures how well a person's kidneys are working may not pick up kidney disease for people in Africa, according to a study published in The Lancet Global Health.
A study, titled Measurement of kidney function in Malawi, South Africa, and Uganda: a multicentre cohort study and published in The Lancet Global Health on 13 July 2022, was the largest study to analyse kidney disease testing and prevalence in Africa