Ethnic factors of the glomerular filtration rate estimating equation

Kidney International

Volumn 81, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 799-

  Horio, Masaru ^a   Yasuda, Yoshinari ^b   Imai, Enyu ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; INULIN; IOTALAMIC ACID; PENTETATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

CAUCASIAN; CHINESE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; INDIAN; JAPANESE; KIDNEY CLEARANCE; KIDNEY DONOR; LETTER; MUSCLE MASS; PLASMA CLEARANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 84859330817     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: 15231755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ki.2011.489     Document Type: Letter

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