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Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate Bias in Participants with Severe Obesity Regardless of Deindexation.

Fitsum Guebre-EgziabherCharlotte BrunelleJouve ThomasCaroline C PelletierGabrielle NormandLaurent JuillardLaurence DubourgSandrine Lemoine
Published in: Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) (2019)
eGFR overestimates mGFR and is associated with important biases and inaccuracies in patients with severe obesity, and deindexing eGFR worsens the overestimation. These findings may have important implications in examining kidney function in patients with obesity.
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