Chronic kidney disease prediction is an inexact science: The concept of “progressors” and “nonprogressors”

Figure 11 Serum creatinine trajectory in a 52-year-old white male patient with features of the predictable linear chronic kidney disease to end stage renal disease progression from 2007 through 2010 when he started hemodialysis for symptomatic uremia, as monitored and tracked through a simulation of The chronic kidney disease Express^© IT Software Program. ESRD: End stage renal disease; HD: Hemodialysis.