Indexing glomerular filtration rate for body surface area in obese patients is misleading: Concept and example

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2024-2028

  Delanaye, Pierre ^a   Radermecker, Régis P ^a   Rorive, Marcelle ^a   Depas, Gisèle ^a   Krzesinski, Jean Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Body surface area; Glomerular filtration rate; Obesity

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BODY SURFACE; CREATININE CLEARANCE; EDITORIAL; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; KIDNEY DISEASE; METABOLIC RATE; NEPHRON; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TOTAL BODY WATER;

BODY SURFACE AREA; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; OBESITY; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 27144554679     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfh983     Document Type: Editorial

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