The clinical utility and cost impact of cystatin C measurement in the diagnosis and management of chronic kidney disease: A primary care cohort study

BACKGROUND: To reduce over-diagnosis of chronic kidney disease (CKD) resulting from the inaccuracy of creatinine-based estimates of glomerular filtration rate (GFR), UK and international guidelines recommend that cystatin-C-based estimates of GFR be used to confirm or exclude the diagnosis in people...

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Published in:PLoS Med
Main Authors: Shardlow, Adam, McIntyre, Natasha J., Fraser, Simon D. S., Roderick, Paul, Raftery, James, Fluck, Richard J., McIntyre, Christopher W., Taal, Maarten W.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2017
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5634538/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29016597
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002400
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