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The estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) is a blood test to assess kidney function. The formula for calculating eGFR takes the patient’s body size, age, and sex into account to predict ...

One of the early products of the Chronic Kidney Disease in Children (CKiD) study has been an updated equation for estimating GFR in children on the basis of demographic and laboratory parameters.

In patients already diagnosed with CKD, eGFR (as calculated by the abbreviated Modification of Diet in Renal Disease [MDRD] equation [5]) might provide a less crude description of the degree of ...

Some conditions can impact both. When computing eGFR, don't include race as a factor, the work group advised. Different ...