August 30, 2021Open Access

Accounting for Age in the Definition of Chronic Kidney Disease

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This cohort study of adults with CKD suggests that the current criteria for CKD that use the same eGFR threshold for all ages may result in overestimation of the CKD burden in an aging population, overdiagnosis, and unnecessary interventions in many elderly people who have age-related loss of eGFR.

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Liu et al. (Mon,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d845ce8c03fbaff8bee929 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.4813

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