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

CONCLUSIONS: 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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Source: Obesity - October 2, 2019 Category: Eating Disorders & Weight Management Authors: Guebre-Egziabher F, Brunelle C, Thomas J, Pelletier CC, Normand G, Juillard L, Dubourg L, Lemoine S Tags: Obesity (Silver Spring) Source Type: research