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Race-free estimated glomerular filtration rate equation in kidney transplant recipients: development and validation study

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"Race-free estimated glomerular filtration rate equation in kidney transplant recipients: development and validation study"
(BMJ 2023;381:e073654)

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[The authors] constructed a multinational cohort of more than 15 000 kidney transplant recipients with 50 000 GFR measurements from 17 transplant cohorts in seven countries to develop a new race-free kidney recipient specific GFR equation and compared its performances with those of the three current main GFR equations.

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- Marc Raynaud, PhD • Université de Paris Cité, INSERM, PARCC, Paris, France
- Alexandre Loupy, MD, PhD • Université de Paris Cité, INSERM, PARCC, Paris, France

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- Mona Doshi, MBBS • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

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