Adapting the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease equation for Japanese patients
Chi-yuan Hsu
Correspondence University of California, San Francisco, 521 Parnassus Avenue, C443, Box 0532, San Francisco, CA 94143-0532, USA
Email hsuchi@medicine.ucsf.edu
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Recently, there has been a veritable explosion of papers on GFR-estimating equations. Many papers have been published evaluating the performance of the MDRD equation in particular subsets of patients (such as Chinese patients, patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus, and kidney transplant recipients).1, 2 For the practicing nephrologist, the pertinent question is often, how well does the MDRD equation work in my patient? However, many of the papers cannot answer this seemingly straightforward question, because of two key issues.
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