Elaine Ku, MD, MAS
Associate Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

I am especially interested in transitions of care, such as that between adolescence and young adulthood, as well as that between advanced chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease (including dialysis and transplant). My specific areas of focus currently include 1) cardiovascular risk in patients with kidney disease; 2) disparities in access to kidney transplantation and transplant outcomes; and 3) risk factors for progression of chronic kidney disease.

I am currently Director of the Training in Clinical Research Program in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

• Strategies to Guide Preemptive Waitlisting and Equity in Waittime Accrual by Race/Ethnicity.
  Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 2023 Ku E, Copeland T, Chen LX, Weir MR, McCulloch CE, Johansen KL, Goussous N, Savant JD, Lopez I, Amaral S
• Fasting blood glucose and insulin are not associated with atopic dermatitis in a pediatric population: A longitudinal cohort study from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children.
  JAAD international 2023 Shan J, Ye M, Ku E, McCulloch CE, Langan SM, Abuabara K
• Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter Complications after Insertion by Surgeons, Radiologists, or Nephrologists.
  Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 2023 Ku E, Copeland T, McCulloch CE, Freise C, Legaspi S, Weinhandl E, Woo K, Johansen KL
• Association Between Dialysis Facility Ownership and Mortality Risk in Children With Kidney Failure.
  JAMA pediatrics 2023 Ku E, McCulloch CE, Bicki A, Lin F, Lopez I, Furth SL, Warady BA, Grimes BA, Amaral S
• Rurality of patient residence and access to transplantation among children with kidney failure in the United States.
  Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) 2023 Accetta-Rojas G, McCulloch CE, Whelan AM, Copeland TP, Grimes BA, Ku E
• Association Between Transplant Center Continuity and Access to a Second Kidney Transplant in Patients With Allograft Failure.
  American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2023 Emanuels D, Copeland T, Johansen KL, Brar S, McCulloch CE, Kadatz M, Gill JS, Ku E
• Risk of Death among Dialysis Patients Treated at Hospital-Affiliated versus Free-Standing Facilities in the United States.
  Kidney360 2023 Zhang LY, Amaral S, McCulloch CE, Grimes B, Ku E
• What's the Weather Like Today? Forecasting a Chance of Shower, Snow, and… Missing Dialysis.
  Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2023 Dhiraj Nallapothula, Elaine Ku
• Acute Declines in Estimated GFR in Blood Pressure Target Trials and Risk of Adverse Outcomes.
  American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2023 Ku E, McCulloch CE, Copeland TP, Inker LA, Tighiouart H, Sarnak MJ
• Novel anemia therapies in chronic kidney disease: conclusions from a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Controversies Conference.
  Kidney international 2023 Ku E, Del Vecchio L, Eckardt KU, Haase VH, Johansen KL, Nangaku M, Tangri N, Waikar SS, Wiecek A, Cheung M, Jadoul M, Winkelmayer WC, Wheeler DC, for Conference Participants
• Authors' Reply: A Specific Target BP in Chronic Kidney Disease Remains Unclear.
  Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 2023 Ku E, McCulloch CE, Sarnak MJ
• Additive effects of intensive BP control and ACE inhibition on suppression of proteinuria in patients with CKD.
  Journal of human hypertension 2023 Lopez R, Copeland T, McCulloch C, Ku E
• US Renal Data System 2022 Annual Data Report: Epidemiology of Kidney Disease in the United States.
  American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2023 Johansen KL, Chertow GM, Gilbertson DT, Ishani A, Israni A, Ku E, Li S, Li S, Liu J, Obrador GT, Schulman I, Chan K, Abbott KC, O'Hare AM, Powe NR, Roetker NS, Scherer JS, St Peter W, Snyder J, …
• Intensive BP Control in Patients with CKD and Risk for Adverse Outcomes.
  Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 2023 Ku E, McCulloch CE, Inker LA, Tighiouart H, Schaefer F, Wühl E, Ruggenenti P, Remuzzi G, Grimes BA, Sarnak MJ
• Kidney transplant access for children and young adults with congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract.
  International urology and nephrology 2023 Wei J, Showen A, Bicki A, Lin F, McCulloch CE, Ku E, Hampson LA
• Comparison of 2021 CKD-EPI Equations for Estimating Racial Differences in Preemptive Waitlisting for Kidney Transplantation.
  Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 2022 Ku E, Amaral S, McCulloch CE, Adey DB, Li L, Johansen KL
• Epidemiology and Management of Chronic Kidney Disease in Children.
  2022 Elaine Ku, Jérôme Harambat
• Incidence and Risk Factors for Dialysis Reinitiation among Patients with a History of Dialysis Dependency.
  Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 2022 Ku E, Hsu RK, McCulloch CE, Lo L, Copeland T, Siyahian S, Grimes B, Johansen KL
• Association Between Dialysis Facility Ownership and Access to the Waiting List and Transplant in Pediatric Patients With End-stage Kidney Disease in the US.
  JAMA 2022 Amaral S, McCulloch CE, Lin F, Grimes BA, Furth S, Warady B, Brunson C, Siyahian S, Ku E
• Kidney Transplantation in the Setting of Prolonged Dialysis Vintage: It's About Time.
  American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2022 Whelan AM, Dinh A, Ku E
• Cardiovascular disease risk factors and lifestyle modification strategies after pediatric kidney transplantation: what are we dealing with, and what can we target?
  Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) 2022 Bae SR, Bicki A, Coufal S, Jin E, Ku E
• US Renal Data System 2021 Annual Data Report: Epidemiology of Kidney Disease in the United States.
  American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2022 Johansen KL, Chertow GM, Gilbertson DT, Herzog CA, Ishani A, Israni AK, Ku E, Li S, Li S, Liu J, Obrador GT, O'Hare AM, Peng Y, Powe NR, Roetker NS, St Peter WL, Saeed F, Snyder J, Solid C, Weinhandl …
• Kidney transplant candidacy evaluation and waitlisting practices in the United States and their association with access to transplantation.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2022 Whelan AM, Johansen KL, Copeland T, McCulloch CE, Nallapothula D, Lee BK, Roll GR, Weir MR, Adey DB, Ku E
• Perioperative Delta Sodium and Post-Liver Transplant Neurological Complications in Liver Transplant Recipients.
  Transplantation 2022 Berry K, Copeland T, Ku E, Lai JC
• Racial Differences in Medication Utilization for Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Post Hoc Analysis of the FAVORIT Trial Cohort.
  Kidney medicine 2022 Fallahzadeh MK, Ku E, Chu CD, McCulloch CE, Tuot DS
• KDOQI US Commentary on the 2021 KDIGO Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Blood Pressure in CKD.
  American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2022 Drawz PE, Beddhu S, Bignall ONR, Cohen JB, Flynn JT, Ku E, Rahman M, Thomas G, Weir MR, Whelton PK
• Expedited evaluation for liver transplantation: A critical look at processes and outcomes.
  Clinical transplantation 2021 Braun HJ, Mello A, Kothari R, Ku E, Yilma M, Tavakol M, Zhang L, Niemann CU, Ascher NL, Adelmann D
• Religious Service Attendance and Mortality among Adults in the United States with Chronic Kidney Disease.
  International journal of environmental research and public health 2021 Bruce MA, Thorpe RJ, Kermah D, Shen J, Nicholas SB, Beech BM, Tuot DS, Ku E, Waterman AD, Duru K, Brown A, Norris KC
• An Analysis of Free-Text Refusals as an Indicator of Readiness to Accept Organ Offers in Liver Transplantation.
  Hepatology communications 2021 Ge J, Ku E, Roll GR, Lai JC
• Epidemiology and management of Chronic Kidney Disease in Children.
  2021 Elaine Ku, Jérôme Harambat
• Lower Extremity Vascular Intervention Is Associated With Increased Mortality Following Kidney Transplantation.
  Journal of Vascular Surgery 2021 Hillary J. Braun, Iris H. Liu, Dominic Amara, Peter Stock, Libo Li, Elaine Ku, Jade Hiramoto
• Bariatric surgery prior to transplantation and risk of early hospital re-admission, graft failure, or death following kidney transplantation.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2021 Ku E, McCulloch CE, Roll GR, Posselt A, Grimes BA, Johansen KL
• Intensive Blood Pressure Control, APOL1 Genotype, and Kidney Outcomes in Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes: A Post Hoc Analysis of the Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes-Blood Pressure (ACCORD-BP) Trial.
  Kidney medicine 2021 Dinh A, Copeland T, Freedman BI, McCulloch CE, Ku E
• Intensive Blood Pressure Control, APOL1 Genotype, and Kidney Outcomes in Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes: A Post Hoc Analysis of the Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes-Blood Pressure (ACCORD-BP) Trial.
  Kidney Medicine 2021 Alex Dinh, Timothy Copeland, Barry I. Freedman, Charles E. McCulloch, Elaine Ku
• Discordances between pediatric and adult thresholds in the diagnosis of hypertension in adolescents with CKD.
  Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) 2021 Black E, Lee J, Flynn JT, McCulloch CE, Samuels JA, Seth D, Warady B, Furth S, Mitsnefes M, Ku E
• Intensive Home Blood Pressure Lowering in Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial Protocol.
  Open Access Journal of Clinical Trials 2021 Se Ri Bae, Charles E McCulloch, Raymond K Hsu, Elaine Ku
• US Renal Data System 2020 Annual Data Report: Epidemiology of Kidney Disease in the United States.
  American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2021 Johansen KL, Chertow GM, Foley RN, Gilbertson DT, Herzog CA, Ishani A, Israni AK, Ku E, Kurella Tamura M, Li S, Li S, Liu J, Obrador GT, O'Hare AM, Peng Y, Powe NR, Roetker NS, St Peter WL, Abbott KC,…
• Association between Longer Travel Distance for Transplant Care and Access to Kidney Transplantation and Graft Survival in the United States.
  Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 2021 Whelan AM, Johansen KL, Brar S, McCulloch CE, Adey DB, Roll GR, Grimes B, Ku E
• Renal Recovery and Mortality Risk Among Patients with Hepatorenal Syndrome Receiving Chronic Maintenance Dialysis.
  Kidney360 2021 Sophie McAllister, Jennifer C. Lai, Timothy P. Copeland, Kirsten L. Johansen, Charles E. McCulloch, Yuenting D. Kwong, Divya Seth, Barbara Grimes, Elaine Ku
• Renal Recovery and Mortality Risk among Patients with Hepatorenal Syndrome Receiving Chronic Maintenance Dialysis.
  Kidney360 2021 McAllister S, Lai JC, Copeland TP, Johansen KL, McCulloch CE, Kwong YD, Seth D, Grimes B, Ku E
• Racial Disparities in Eligibility for Preemptive Waitlisting for Kidney Transplantation and Modification of eGFR Thresholds to Equalize Waitlist Time.
  Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 2021 Ku E, McCulloch CE, Adey DB, Li L, Johansen KL
• Recovery of kidney function after dialysis initiation in children and adults in the US: A retrospective study of United States Renal Data System data.
  PLoS medicine 2021 Ku E, Hsu RK, Johansen KL, McCulloch CE, Mitsnefes M, Grimes BA, Liu KD
• Acute eGFR declines after intensive BP lowering with RAS blockade and risk of kidney failure.
  Journal of human hypertension 2021 McCallum W, Sarnak MJ, Lin F, Ku E
• Sex Disparity in Deceased-Donor Kidney Transplant Access by Cause of Kidney Disease.
  Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 2021 Ahearn P, Johansen KL, Tan JC, McCulloch CE, Grimes BA, Ku E
• Predicting long-term kidney allograft outcomes: pitfalls and progress.
  Kidney international 2021 Dinh A, McCulloch CE, Ku E
• Factors Associated with Dialysis Discontinuation Outside of the Acute Care Setting.
  Kidney360 2020 Roberts MJ, Johansen KL, Copeland TP, McCulloch CE, Coufal S, Ku E
• Weighing the waitlist: Weight changes and access to kidney transplantation among obese candidates.
  PloS one 2020 Ku E, Whelan AM, McCulloch CE, Lee B, Niemann CU, Roll GR, Grimes BA, Johansen KL
• The Kidney Failure Risk Equation for Prediction of Allograft Loss in Kidney Transplant Recipients.
  Kidney medicine 2020 Chu CD, Ku E, Fallahzadeh MK, McCulloch CE, Tuot DS
• Longer Distance From Dialysis Facility to Transplant Center Is Associated With Lower Access to Kidney Transplantation.
  Transplantation direct 2020 Whelan AM, Johansen KL, McCulloch CE, Adelmann D, Niemann CU, Roll GR, Siyahian S, Grimes B, Ku E
• Estimation of Albumin-Creatinine Ratio From Protein-Creatinine Ratio in Urine of Children and Adolescents With CKD.
  American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2020 Schneider MF, Muñoz A, Ku E, Warady BA, Furth SL, Schwartz GJ
• Trends in Cardiovascular Mortality Among a Cohort of Children and Young Adults Starting Dialysis in 1995 to 2015.
  JAMA network open 2020 Ku E, McCulloch CE, Ahearn P, Grimes BA, Mitsnefes MM
• Community-Based Epidemiology of Hospitalized Acute Kidney Injury.
  Pediatrics 2020 Parikh RV, Tan TC, Salyer AS, Auron A, Kim PS, Ku E, Go AS
• Intensive BP Control and eGFR Declines: Are These Events Due to Hemodynamic Effects and Are Changes Reversible?
  Current cardiology reports 2020 Chen DC, McCallum W, Sarnak MJ, Ku E
• Recovery of Kidney Function Among Patients With Glomerular Disease Starting Maintenance Dialysis.
  American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2020 Kwong YD, Liu KD, Hsu RK, Johansen KL, McCulloch CE, Seth D, Fallahzadeh MK, Grimes BA, Ku E
• Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Kidney Transplant Access Within a Theoretical Context of Medical Eligibility.
  Transplantation 2020 Ku E, Lee BK, McCulloch CE, Roll GR, Grimes B, Adey D, Johansen KL
• eHealth in kidney care.
  Nature reviews. Nephrology 2020 Wang CS, Ku E
• Trends in Living Donation by Race and Ethnicity Among Children With End-stage Renal Disease in the United States, 1995-2015.
  Transplantation direct 2020 Amaral S, McCulloch CE, Black E, Winnicki E, Lee B, Roll GR, Grimes B, Ku E
• Pretransplant dialysis exposure and outcomes after kidney transplantation - Where quantity and quality intersect?
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2020 Dinh A, Ku E
• Should Renin-Angiotensin System Blockade Be Avoided in Patients With Declining Kidney Function?
  American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2020 Weir MR, Chen DC, Ku E
• Tubular secretion of creatinine and kidney function: an observational study.
  BMC nephrology 2020 Zhang X, Rule AD, McCulloch CE, Lieske JC, Ku E, Hsu CY
• Prognostic Value of Ambulatory Blood Pressure Load in Pediatric CKD.
  Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 2020 Lee J, McCulloch CE, Flynn JT, Samuels J, Warady BA, Furth SL, Seth D, Grimes BA, Mitsnefes MM, Ku E
• Association Between APOL1 Genotype and Need for Kidney Replacement Therapy in Patients Without Diabetes: Does Age Matter?
  American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2019 Wei J, Johansen KL, McCulloch CE, Lipkowitz M, Weir M, Lin F, Campese VM, Smogorzewski M, Ku E
• Race and Mortality in CKD and Dialysis: Findings From the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) Study.
  American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2019 Ku E, Yang W, McCulloch CE, Feldman HI, Go AS, Lash J, Bansal N, He J, Horwitz E, Ricardo AC, Shafi T, Sondheimer J, Townsend RR, Waikar SS, Hsu CY, CRIC Study Investigators
• Authors' Reply.
  Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 2019 Winnicki E, McCulloch CE, Ku E
• Use of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in kidney transplant recipients.
  Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association 2019 Whelan AM, Ku E
• Effect of Blood Pressure Control on Long-Term Risk of End-Stage Renal Disease and Death Among Subgroups of Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease.
  Journal of the American Heart Association 2019 Ku E, Sarnak MJ, Toto R, McCulloch CE, Lin F, Smogorzewski M, Hsu CY
• Higher eGFR at Dialysis Initiation Is Not Associated with a Survival Benefit in Children.
  Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 2019 Winnicki E, Johansen KL, Cabana MD, Warady BA, McCulloch CE, Grimes B, Ku E
• Trends in Kidney Function Outcomes Following RAAS Inhibition in Patients With Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction.
  American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2019 McCallum W, Tighiouart H, Ku E, Salem D, Sarnak MJ
• Starting Renal Replacement Therapy: Is It About Time?
  American journal of nephrology 2019 Ku E, McCulloch CE, Johansen KL
• Cardiovascular disease in young adults with incident ESRD.
  Nature reviews. Nephrology 2019 Ku E, Mitsnefes MM
• More Evidence to Suggest a Relation of Blood Pressure to Long-term Progression of Kidney Disease: Is It Causal?
  American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2019 McCallum W, Ku E, Sarnak MJ
• Acute declines in estimated glomerular filtration rate on enalapril and mortality and cardiovascular outcomes in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.
  Kidney international 2019 McCallum W, Tighiouart H, Ku E, Salem D, Sarnak MJ
• Magnitude of the Difference Between Clinic and Ambulatory Blood Pressures and Risk of Adverse Outcomes in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease.
  Journal of the American Heart Association 2019 Ku E, Hsu RK, Tuot DS, Bae SR, Lipkowitz MS, Smogorzewski MJ, Grimes BA, Weir MR
• Association between BMI changes and mortality risk in children with end-stage renal disease.
  Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) 2019 Roberts MJ, Mitsnefes MM, McCulloch CE, Greenbaum LA, Grimes BA, Ku E
• Hypertension in CKD: Core Curriculum 2019.
  American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2019 Ku E, Lee BJ, Wei J, Weir MR
• Complications of Chronic Kidney Disease in Adolescents.
  Adolescents with Chronic Kidney Disease 2019 Elaine Ku, Jonas Kwok
• Sex Disparities in Risk of Mortality Among Children With ESRD.
  American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2018 Ahearn P, Johansen KL, McCulloch CE, Grimes BA, Ku E
• Depressive Symptoms Associate With Race and All-Cause Mortality in Patients With CKD.
  Kidney international reports 2018 Tuot DS, Lin F, Norris K, Gassman J, Smogorzewski M, Ku E
• Use of Antihypertensive Agents and Association With Risk of Adverse Outcomes in Chronic Kidney Disease: Focus on Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors and Angiotensin Receptor Blockers.
  Journal of the American Heart Association 2018 Ku E, McCulloch CE, Vittinghoff E, Lin F, Johansen KL
• Use of Renin-Angiotensin System Blockade in Advanced CKD: An NKF-KDOQI Controversies Report.
  American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2018 Weir MR, Lakkis JI, Jaar B, Rocco MV, Choi MJ, Kramer HJ, Ku E
• Acute Declines in Renal Function during Intensive BP Lowering and Long-Term Risk of Death.
  Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 2018 Ku E, Ix JH, Jamerson K, Tangri N, Lin F, Gassman J, Smogorzewski M, Sarnak MJ
• Time-Centered Approach to Understanding Risk Factors for the Progression of CKD.
  Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 2018 Ku E, Johansen KL, McCulloch CE
• Changes in Blood Pressure During Young Adulthood and Subsequent Kidney Function Decline: Findings From the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adulthood (CARDIA) Study.
  American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2018 Ku E, Vittinghoff E, Jacobs DR, Lewis CE, Allen NB, Bibbins-Domingo K, Shlipak M, Kramer H, Peralta CA
• Twenty-Four-Hour Ambulatory Blood Pressure versus Clinic Blood Pressure Measurements and Risk of Adverse Outcomes in Children with CKD.
  Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 2018 Ku E, McCulloch CE, Warady BA, Furth SL, Grimes BA, Mitsnefes MM
• Use of the Kidney Failure Risk Equation to Determine the Risk of Progression to End-stage Renal Disease in Children With Chronic Kidney Disease.
  JAMA pediatrics 2018 Winnicki E, McCulloch CE, Mitsnefes MM, Furth SL, Warady BA, Ku E
• Longitudinal Weight Change During CKD Progression and Its Association With Subsequent Mortality.
  American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2017 Ku E, Kopple JD, Johansen KL, McCulloch CE, Go AS, Xie D, Lin F, Hamm LL, He J, Kusek JW, Navaneethan SD, Ricardo AC, Rincon-Choles H, Smogorzewski M, Hsu CY, CRIC Study Investigators
• Associations Between Weight Loss, Kidney Function Decline, and Risk of ESRD in the Chronic Kidney Disease in Children (CKiD) Cohort Study.
  American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2017 Ku E, Kopple JD, McCulloch CE, Warady BA, Furth SL, Mak RH, Grimes BA, Mitsnefes M
• Patterns of blood pressure response during intensive BP lowering and clinical events: results from the secondary prevention of small subcortical strokes trial.
  Blood pressure 2017 Ku E, Scherzer R, Odden MC, Shlipak M, White CL, Field TS, Benavente O, Pergola PE, Peralta CA
• Acute Declines in Renal Function during Intensive BP Lowering: Implications for Future ESRD Risk.
  Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 2017 Ku E, Bakris G, Johansen KL, Lin F, Sarnak MJ, Campese VM, Jamerson K, Gassman JJ, Smogorzewski M, Hsu CY
• Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Survival of Children with ESRD.
  Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 2016 Ku E, McCulloch CE, Grimes BA, Johansen KL
• Strict blood pressure control associates with decreased mortality risk by APOL1 genotype.
  Kidney international 2016 Ku E, Lipkowitz MS, Appel LJ, Parsa A, Gassman J, Glidden DV, Smogorzewski M, Hsu CY
• Association Between Blood Pressure and Adverse Renal Events in Type 1 Diabetes.
  Diabetes care 2016 Ku E, McCulloch CE, Mauer M, Gitelman SE, Grimes BA, Hsu CY
• BP Control and Long-Term Risk of ESRD and Mortality.
  Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 2016 Ku E, Gassman J, Appel LJ, Smogorzewski M, Sarnak MJ, Glidden DV, Bakris G, Gutiérrez OM, Hebert LA, Ix JH, Lea J, Lipkowitz MS, Norris K, Ploth D, Pogue VA, Rostand SG, Siew ED, Sika M, Tisher CC, …
• Height at First RRT and Mortality in Children.
  Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 2016 Ku E, Fine RN, Hsu CY, McCulloch C, Glidden DV, Grimes B, Johansen KL
• Change in Measured GFR Versus eGFR and CKD Outcomes.
  Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 2015 Ku E, Xie D, Shlipak M, Hyre Anderson A, Chen J, Go AS, He J, Horwitz EJ, Rahman M, Ricardo AC, Sondheimer JH, Townsend RR, Hsu CY, CRIC Study Investigators
• Association of Body Mass Index with Patient-Centered Outcomes in Children with ESRD.
  Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 2015 Ku E, Glidden DV, Hsu CY, Portale AA, Grimes B, Johansen KL
• State level variations in nephrology workforce and timing and incidence of dialysis in the United States among children and adults: a retrospective cohort study.
  BMC nephrology 2015 Ku E, Johansen KL, Portale AA, Grimes B, Hsu CY
• Association between strict blood pressure control during chronic kidney disease and lower mortality after onset of end-stage renal disease.
  Kidney international 2014 Ku E, Glidden DV, Johansen KL, Sarnak M, Tighiouart H, Grimes B, Hsu CY
• Index of suspicion. Case 1: fever, diarrhea, jaundice, and confusion in an 18-year-old male. Case 2: severe anemia in a 6-month-old girl. Case 3: red urine in a 4-month-old boy.
  Pediatrics in review 2014 Ku E, Thomas M, Ho CH, Whipple NS, Abdul-Rahman O, Megason GC, Herrington BL, Carmody JB, Charlton JR
• Regional variation in the incidence of dialysis-requiring AKI in the United States.
  Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 2013 Hsu RK, McCulloch CE, Ku E, Dudley RA, Hsu CY
• Is lipid management effective for all stages of CKD?.
  Blood purification 2013 Ku E, Campese V
• IgA nephropathy in a patient with ulcerative colitis, Graves' disease and positive myeloperoxidase ANCA.
  Clinical nephrology 2012 Ku E, Ananthapanyasut W, Campese VM
• Do HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors improve kidney function? The saga continues.
  Journal of nephrology 2011 Campese VM, Ku E, Bigazzi R, Bianchi S
• Metabolic and Dietary Influences on Sympathetic Nervous System Activity.
  Nutritional and Metabolic Bases of Cardiovascular Disease 2011 Elaine Ku, Tanzina Nasreen, Jeanie Park, Vito M. Campese
• Sympathetic renal innervation and resistant hypertension.
  International journal of hypertension 2011 Campese VM, Ku E, Park J
• Aldosterone in the pathogenesis of chronic kidney disease and proteinuria.
  Current hypertension reports 2010 Lu Y, Ku E, Campese VM
• Visual Diagnosis.
  Pediatrics in Review 2010 Elaine Ku, B. Jason Brotherton, Christopher Parrish, Stephanie K. Zia, Susan McKenna
• Visual diagnosis: vaginal mass in a 16-month-old child.
  Pediatrics in review 2010 Ku E, Brotherton BJ, Parrish C, Zia SK, McKenna S
• Aldosterone and hypertension in African Americans.
  American journal of hypertension 2009 Ku E, Campese VM
• The Case for Dual Renin-Angiotensin System Inhibition—Reply.
  JAMA Internal Medicine 2009 Elaine Ku, Jeanie Park, Jay Vidhun, Vito Campese
• Anion and osmolal gaps after alcohol intoxication.
  American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2009 Ku E, Cheung EL, Khan A, Yu AS
• The hazards of dual renin-angiotensin blockade in chronic kidney disease.
  Archives of internal medicine 2009 Ku E, Park J, Vidhun J, Campese V
• Lixivaptan: a novel vasopressin receptor antagonist.
  Expert opinion on investigational drugs 2009 Ku E, Nobakht N, Campese VM
• Role of aldosterone in the progression of chronic kidney disease and potential use of aldosterone blockade in children.
  Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) 2009 Ku E, Campese VM