Performance of glomerular filtration rate estimation equations in Congolese healthy adults: The inopportunity of the ethnic correction.
Justine Busanga BukabauErnest K SumailiEtienne CavalierHans PottelBejos KifakiouAliocha NkodilaJean Robert R MakuloVieux M MokoliChantal V ZingaAugustin L LongoYannick M EngoleYannick M NlanduFrançois B LepiraNazaire M NsekaJean Marie KrzesinskiPierre DelanayePublished in: PloS one (2018)
In the Congolese healthy population, MDRD and CKD-EPI equations without ethnic factors had better performance than the same equations with ethnic factor. The equations using Cys C (alone or combined with SCr) performed better than the creatinine-based equations.