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Using serum creatinine to estimate glomerular filtration rate: accuracy in good health and in chronic kidney disease.
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Abstract
The National Kidney Foundation has advocated the use of the abbreviated Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) equation to estimate glomerular filtration rate (GFR) from serum creatinine measurements in clinical laboratories. However, healthy persons were not included in the development of the MDRD equation.