Offer testing for CKD using eGFRcreatinine and ACR to people with any of the following risk factors:
- diabetes
- hypertension
- acute kidney injury
- cardiovascular disease (ischaemic heart disease, chronic heart failure, peripheral vascular disease or cerebral vascular disease)
- structural renal tract disease, recurrent renal calculi or prostatic hypertrophy
- multisystem diseases with potential kidney involvement - for example, systemic lupus erythematosus
- family history of end-stage kidney disease (GFR category G5) or hereditary kidney disease
- incidental detection of haematuria or proteinuria
- do not use any of the following as risk factors indicating testing for CKD in adults, children and young people:
- age
- gender
- ethnicity
- obesity in the absence of metabolic syndrome, diabetes or hypertension
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