Cardiologists in Europe have been told to test every patient for kidney damage at the time cardiovascular disease is diagnosed, using two inexpensive tests that many heart patients never receive.
The European Society of Cardiology, working with the European Renal Association, issued its first guidelines on the two conditions together. The recommendations were published in the European Heart Journal and presented at the society's annual congress. They are European guidance, not American, which matters for how readers should interpret what follows.
