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Glomerular filtration rate equations: a comprehensive review

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Since evaluation of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is very important in daily medical care, and reliable methods for measuring GFR are too complicated, there has been along decades an enormous effort for developing accurate GFR equations. In the present review article, we performed a comprehensive analysis of the mainly described GFR equations, and we concluded that although MDRD, CKD-EPI, DRA and Gregori–Macías equations are valid to monitor renal function as well as to stage and follow up renal patients, the clinical nephrological evaluation still remains the best alternative for diagnosing renal health and disease.

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  1. Ageing Biology Unit, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Carlos G. Musso & José Jauregui

  2. F.E.A. Urgencias, Hospital Nuestra Señora del Prado, Talavera de la Reina, Toledo, Spain

    Joaquín Álvarez-Gregori

  3. Department of Medicine, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Juan F. Macías-Núñez

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Musso, C.G., Álvarez-Gregori, J., Jauregui, J. et al. Glomerular filtration rate equations: a comprehensive review. Int Urol Nephrol 48, 1105–1110 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11255-016-1276-1

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