Open AccessAccounting for Age in the Definition of Chronic Kidney Disease
Author(s) -
Ping Liu,
Rob R. Quinn,
Ngan N. Lam,
Meghan J. Elliott,
Yuan Xu,
Matthew T. James,
Braden Manns,
Pietro Ravani
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
jama internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.14
H-Index - 342
eISSN - 2168-6114
pISSN - 2168-6106
DOI - 10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.4813
Subject(s) - medicine , kidney disease , renal function , albuminuria , cohort , population , urology , environmental health
Using the same level of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) to define chronic kidney disease (CKD) regardless of patient age may classify many elderly people with a normal physiological age-related eGFR decline as having a disease.
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