The CKD-EPI equation for estimating GFR from serum creatinine: Real improvement or more of the same?

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 951-953

  Rule, Andrew D ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; IOTALAMIC ACID; RADIOACTIVE IODINE;

CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE CLEARANCE; EDITORIAL; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FAILURE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUSCLE MASS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; AGE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC USE; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL BIAS;

AGE FACTORS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CREATININE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; IOTHALAMIC ACID; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 77953308086     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.03110410     Document Type: Editorial

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