Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Adapting the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease equation for Japanese patients

  • Practice Point
  • Published:

From Nature Clinical Practice Nephrology

View current issue Sign up to alerts

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. Hsu CY and Schieppati A (2006) Chronic kidney disease and progression. NephSAP 5: 141–149

    Google Scholar 

  2. Coresh J and Stevens LA (2006) Kidney function estimating equations: where do we stand? Curr Opin Nephrol Hypertens 15: 276–284

    Article  Google Scholar 

  3. Levey AS et al. (1999) A more accurate method to estimate glomerular filtration rate from serum creatinine: a new prediction equation. Ann Intern Med 130: 461–470

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  4. Perrone RD et al. (1990) Utility of radioisotopic filtration markers in chronic renal insufficiency: simultaneous comparison of 125I-iothalamate, 169Yb-DTPA, 99mTc-DTPA, and inulin. Am J Kidney Dis 16: 224–235

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  5. Levey AS et al. (2007) Expressing the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease Study equation for estimating glomerular filtration rate with standardized serum creatinine values. Clin Chem 53: 766–772

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgements

The synopsis was written by Chloë Harman, Locum Editor, Nature Clinical Practice.

Author information

Author notes

  1. University of California, San Francisco, 521 Parnassus Avenue, C443, Box 0532, San Francisco, CA 94143-0532, USA hsuchi@medicine.ucsf.edu

Authors and Affiliations

  1. CY Hsu is Interim Division Chief and Associate Professor in the Division of Nephrology at the University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.,

    Chi-yuan Hsu

Authors
  1. Chi-yuan Hsu
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Ethics declarations

Competing interests

The author declares no competing financial interests.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Hsu, Cy. Adapting the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease equation for Japanese patients. Nat Rev Nephrol 4, 300–301 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpneph0783

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpneph0783

  • Springer Nature Limited

Search

Navigation