This is in addition to checking for the disease in patients with diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disease (CVD).
However, the guidelines do not endorse whole-population screening for CKD, as proposed by the prime minister Gordon Brown earlier this year.
The draft guidance states that in the absence of risk factors ‘age, gender, ethnicity or BMI should not be used as risk markers to test people for CKD'.
This supports recent research that found screening was only of benefit for at-risk patients (GP, 28 Jan 2008).
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