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... Table 1 describes the baseline characteristics of the study population. In brief, slightly more than half of the subjects were women, approximately 70% had high school and above education, and about ... See full document

... second study, Erley et ...third estimating equation used in this study (CKD- EPI) has, to our knowledge, not been evaluated against true measures of GFR in any population of critically ill ... See full document

... Summarizing it can be stated that both the accuracy and precision of mGFR values achievable by the kinetic procedure using sinistrin as exogenous marker as well as the possibility for evaluation of the renal functional ... See full document

... present study was to evaluate modified glomerular filtration rate (GFR) prediction formulae in an elderly Chinese population with chronic kidney disease ... See full document

... Four hundred and sixty-three CKD patients were screened. Based on results of mGFR, 122 patients (age 52.0 ± 15.6 years, 69 were male) were determined as CKD stage 3 (Additional file 1). These patients were divided ... See full document

... analysis, based on eGFR will give positive bias when eGFR< 60, and negative bias when eGFR> 90, while the opposite is true when mGFR is used to define subgroups (negative bias when mGFR< 60 and positive ... See full document

... Although there are several studies comparing MDRD to CG for drug doses and adverse events, no clinical trials have compared the clinical outcomes of dose and regimen adjust- ments for patients with CKD on the basis of CG ... See full document

... Methods: GFR was measured by urinary clearance of inulin. Serum creatinine was measured using IDMS-traceable Jaffe ’ s and enzymatic assays, and cystatin C by colloidal gold immunoassay. Dietary protein intake was ... See full document

... Dyslipidemia is a condition that always appears in the development of CKD, even in the early stage of eGFR reduction, and the major components of dyslipidemia in CKD has been revealed to be increased TG level and ... See full document

... Estimation of the glomerular filtration rate is important in clinical practice that too in intensive care setting. Most of antibiotics and drugs that are used in ICU setting are excreted via the ... See full document

... present study has several strengths and limita- ...the population-based design, the extensive characterization of the SHIP participants and the standardized data collection by trained and certified ... See full document

... One of the limitations of our study could lie in the lack of homogeneity of our population since we chose to pool the SCD patients with SS and non-SS genotypes. However, although the patients with ... See full document

... current study, it was found that, in men, either micro-or macro-albuminuria was associated with an increased odds for the bottom BAP quartile when normo- albuminuria was used as ... See full document

... The study enrolled consecutive participants in the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, ...this study was previously evaluated and published ...the study and data collected from 1002 ... See full document

... Each pregnant woman on whom the study was carried out on an outpatient basis was carefully instructed in the collection of a 24 hour urine specimen. Blood samples were drawn at the morning before their usual ... See full document

... The inverse association between BMI and renal impair- ment seems paradoxical. Since BMI assesses the entire body mass including: central and peripheral fat, muscle mass and fluid, it is generally believed to be a less ... See full document

... Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a major public health problem and its prevalence is rising, particularly in the elderly, reflecting mainly the worldwide increased life expectancy of the population [1,2]. The ... See full document

... our study show that of the published methods, unadjusted CKD-EPI predicts GFR (and consequently carboplatin doses) similarly well to the Jelliffe, Wright, and Cockcroft-Gault models in patients with ... See full document

... A systematic review indicated that obesity was as- sociated with CKD incidence and could increase the risk for CKD [8, 20, 21]. Additionally, a reduction in body weight could increase the eGFR in overweight males (BMI ≥ ... See full document

... As is shown in Table 4, the tests of interactions were sig- nificant for age and hypertension. (P for interaction = 0.018, 0.022 respectively), while the tests of interaction were not statistically significant for other ... See full document