Plasma and Urinary KIM-1 in Chronic Kidney Disease: Prognostic Value, Associations with Albuminuria, and Implications for Kidney Failure and Mortality

This study highlights distinct prognostic associations of plasma and urine KIM-1 in CKD. Measuring both may be useful in improving risk stratification in people with CKD. For early-stage CKD, the need to use a combined CKE, including decline in eGFR, is emphasised as few of these people developed KF.