Does an eGFRcys lower than eGFRcr identify patients at higher risk of adverse clinical outcomes?
In routine clinical practice, an eGFRcys lower than eGFRcr is common and identifies patients at higher risk for adverse outcomes such as cardiovascular events and death.
Clinicians require guidance when there are discrepancies between the estimated glomerular filtration rate based on creatinine (eGFRcr) and based on cystatin C (eGFRcys) in the same individual. Routine cystatin C testing in Sweden for over a decade permits exploration of how common and large these discrepancies are, and their associations with adverse clinical outcomes. In this observational study, we found that discordances between eGFRcys and eGFRcr are common, and 1 in 4 patients tested had an eGFRcys > 28% lower than their eGFRcr. We also show that an eGFRcys that is lower than the eGFRcr consistently identifies patients at higher risk of adverse outcomes, including cardiovascular events, kidney replacement therapy, acute kidney injury, and death.
Carrero et al. (Fri,) studied this question.