October 5, 2026

Opportunities to advance precision kidney medicine for women: Vanderbilt Health-led scientific statement

The scientific statement suggests improving women’s kidney care by recognizing how women’s unique biology and social factors affect kidney health and designing research that includes sex-specific analyses of kidney function and chronic kidney disease medications.

By Matt Batcheldor

March 2, 2023

Sex-specific regulation of kidney signals

Links between estrogen signaling and sodium excretion by the kidney could help explain a reduced risk of hypertension in females versus males.

By Kelsey Pinckard