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July 5, 2012New England Journal of Medicine4,112 citationsOpen Access

Estimating Glomerular Filtration Rate from Serum Creatinine and Cystatin C

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LILesley A. InkerCSChristopher H. SchmidHTHocine Tighiouart

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The combined creatinine-cystatin C equation performed better than equations based on either of these markers alone and may be useful as a confirmatory test for chronic kidney disease. (Funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.).

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synapsesocial.com/papers/69d54d9a0d218b845450bdc7https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa1114248
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