... between estimatedglomerularfiltrationrate (eGFR) and meta- bolic syndrome in ...improving estimated glo- merular filtrationrate (eGFR) with lifestyle modification in ...
... reduced estimatedglomerularfiltrationrate (eGFR) and/or the presence of albuminuria, is associated with low-grade in- flammation, which was described as an important mech- anism underlying ...
... mortality due to diabetes has fast increased life span and prevalence of nephropathy in diabetics world over. Its variegated insidious sequel requiring useful markers for timely detection and address. Professional dictat ...
... Estimatedglomerularfiltrationrate (eGFR) is a standard metric for assessing renal excretory function and staging chronic kidney disease (CKD) in routine clinical practice and is ...
... of estimatedglomerularfiltrationrate (eGFR) is a recent advance in laboratory information technology (IT) that generates a measure of kidney function with chemistry laboratory results to ...
... low estimatedglomerularfiltrationrate (eGFR) and high albuminuria, although the presence or absence of CKD is sometimes defined solely on the basis of eGFR ...
... Exogenous markers are safe, convenient, readily available and inexpensive and are not influence by other factor. Creatinine which is used to determine GFR is influenced by muscle mass, dietary protein intake, sex and ...
... Some primary care physicians ’ suboptimal recognition of the severity of CKD may be due, in part, to their use of serum creatinine to estimate kidney function, which is considerably less precise than more recently devel- ...
... The study results must be viewed in the context of several limitations related to its single-center retrospect- ive design. The observational study design impeded the information available on important factors such as ...
... The Cockcroft – Gault (CG) equation provides an estimation of creatinine clearance (CrCl) in a patient with stable renal function. 1 CrCl is commonly used for medica- tion dosage adjustment in patients with renal ...
... was estimated with glomerular fi ltration rate (GFR) and the risk of death, cardiovascular events, and ...the glomerular fi ltration rate was ...rapid rate of cognitive ...
... Thirdly, glomerularfiltrationrate was not measured directly using invasive techniques which would have been difficult to carry out in our large patient ...of glomerularfiltration ...
... In an attempt to reduce late referral and to improve the care of patients with CKD, different organizations have issued guidelines on when to refer patients to the nephrologist. Most suggest referral of patients with a ...
... Absolute bias, absolute precision, accuracy within 30%, and correlation coefficient between estimated GFRs and standard GFR are summarized in Table 3. A significant cor- relation was found between ...
... Several prior studies have shown that plasma Lp(a) levels are elevated in CKD patients, [7, 34–36] but the dir- ection of causality in this trend has been unclear. Past studies have explored whether Lp(a) elevations in ...
... in estimated kidney function between admission and discharge, the pattern of association between eGFR and pneumonia was similar to our main results (Table ...
... The clinicians we interviewed had several suggestions for improving the utilization of automated eGFR report- ing, and for improving their overall CKD management. Ongoing clinician educa[r] ...