Concordance between modification of diet in renal disease, chronic kidney disease epidemiology collaboration and Cockcroft-Gault equations in patients with chronic kidney disease at St. Paul’s hospital millennium medical college, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Concordance between modification of diet in renal disease, chronic kidney disease epidemiology collaboration and Cockcroft-Gault equations in patients with chronic kidney disease at St. Paul’s hospital millennium medical college, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Abstract Background The most commonly used glomerular filtration rate estimating equations for drug dosing are Cockcroft-Gault (CG), Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD), Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) equations. However there is still a concern about whether to...

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Main Authors: Hunduma Dinsa, Teshome Nedi, Alemseged Beyene Berha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-12-01
Series:BMC Nephrology
Subjects:
CG
CKD
CKD-EPI
Drug dose adjustment
MDRD
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12882-017-0783-3

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