Muscle mass, creatinine, cystatin C, and selective glomerular hypofiltration syndromes

ABSTRACT In this issue of Clinical Kidney Journal, Stehlé and colleagues demonstrate that estimation glomerular filtration rate (GFR) by use creatinine a measure, total lumbar muscle cross-sectional area, reflecting the mass an individual, is superior to GFR-estimating equations based upon demographic variables. The report et al. demonstrates one solution interference in estimate GFR. This was identified already at start, 1959, using for Different ways taking into account when creatinine-based estimations GFR have been used generally include controversial race sex coefficients. A new marker GFR, cystatin C, introduced 1979, has shown be virtually uninfluenced mass. editorial, simultaneous C selective hypofiltration syndromes described.