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Nephrology, GFR estimation and chronic kidney disease classification
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Andrew S. Levey, MD, is a nephrologist and professor emeritus at Tufts whose career has focused on glomerular filtration rate estimation, chronic kidney disease definition and clinical practice guidelines. Tufts CKD-EPI organizational material identifies him as the founder of CKD-EPI and a former co-director. He was the senior author of the 2021 New England Journal of Medicine paper describing new creatinine- and cystatin C-based GFR estimating equations without a race coefficient.
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Used for: Adults aged 18 years and older when the 2021 CKD-EPI creatinine or creatinine-cystatin C equation is appropriate for the population and standardized assays in use
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Inker LA, Eneanya ND, Coresh J, Tighiouart H, Wang D, Sang Y, Crews DC, Doria A, Estrella MM, Froissart M, Grams ME, Greene T, Grubb A, Gudnason V, Gutiérrez OM, Kalil R, Karger AB, Mauer M, Navis G, Nelson RG, Poggio ED, Rodby R, Rossing P, Rule AD, Selvin E, Seegmiller JC, Shlipak MG, Torres VE, Yang W, Ballew SH, Couture SJ, Powe NR, Levey AS. Inker LA, et al. — New Creatinine- and Cystatin C-Based Equations to Estimate GFR without Race. New England Journal of Medicine. 2021;385(19):1737-1749
Primary 2021 CKD-EPI Collaboration publication describing new creatinine- and creatinine-cystatin C equations without a race coefficient. Researcher profiles linked here are the first and senior authors and must not be interpreted as the complete author group.
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CKD-EPI 2021 Creatinine and Creatinine-Cystatin C Equations — CKD-EPI Collaboration
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