Clinical factors increasing discrepancies of renal function assessment with MDRD and Cockcroft-Gault equations in old individuals.

Jerzy Chudek Aureliusz KolonkoAleksander J OwczarekKatarzyna Wieczorowska-TobisKatarzyna BroczekAnna SkalskaAndrzej Więcek

Published in: European geriatric medicine (2018)

In very old subjects, especially females, dependent patients and those with visceral obesity, estimation of GFR based on short MDRD formula should not be used interchangeably with Cockcroft-Gault equation for the medicines dose tailoring.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
insulin resistance
newly diagnosed
ejection fraction
chronic kidney disease
metabolic syndrome
type diabetes
peritoneal dialysis
prognostic factors
weight loss
weight gain