Chronic kidney disease: The CKD-EPI equation to estimate GFR - Better alchemy?

Nature Reviews Nephrology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 127-128

  Winearls, Christopher G ^a   Lamb, Edmund J ^b  

^a OXFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b KENT AND CANTERBURY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; ISOTOPE LABELING; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; NEPHROLOGIST; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SHORT SURVEY;

GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 79952184919     PISSN: 17595061     EISSN: 1759507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneph.2010.190     Document Type: Short Survey

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