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. 2017 Jul 6;12(7):e0180565.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0180565. eCollection 2017.

Validation of glomerular filtration rate-estimating equations in Chinese children

Ke Zheng  1 , Mengchun Gong  1 , Yan Qin  1 , Hongmei Song  2 , Ximin Shi  3 , Yuan Wu  1 , Fang Li  3 , Xuemei Li  1
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Validation of glomerular filtration rate-estimating equations in Chinese children

Ke Zheng et al. PLoS One. .

Abstract

Background: Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is essential for renal function evaluation and classification of chronic kidney disease (CKD), while the reference method in children are cumbersome. In the Chinese children, there was no data about GFR measured through plasma or renal clearance of the exogenous markers, and therefore no validated GFR-estimating tools in this population.

Methods: We measured GFR with double-sample plasma clearance of 99mTc-DTPA (mGFR) in 87 hospitalized children with renal injury. Using mGFR as the golden standard, we evaluate the efficiency of four different GFR estimation equations (the original and update Schwartz equation, the Filler equation, the CKiD equation) by statistical parameters of correlation, precision and accuracy.

Results: In our population, mGFR was 97.0± 31.9 mL/min/1.73m2. The updated Schwartz equation, the Filler equation and the CKiD equation, produced eGFR with strong correlation with mGFR, strong explanation capacity of variance in mGFR, small bias, satisfactory performance in Bland-Altman analysis, high intra-class correlation coefficients, high ratio of eGFR within mGFR±10% and eGFR within mGFR±30%, good agreement in CKD staging between eGFR and mGFR. The original Schwartz equation produced eGFR with large bias, poor precision and accuracy.

Conclusion: The validated equations to estimate GFR in our patients are the updated Schwartz equation, which is simple for bedside use, the Filler equation and the CKiD equation, which provide more accurate eGFR. The original Schwartz equation should not be applied to estimate GFR in Chinese children with kidney injuries.

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Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Figures

Fig 1
Fig 1. The Bland-Altman analysis of the four equations.
The slopes in the Bland-Altman analysis of Schwartz1976 (original Schwartz, A), Schwartz2009 (updated Schwartz, B), Filler (C) and CKiD (D) equations are 0.35 (95% CI [0.14, 0.56]), 0.20 (95% CI [0.02, 0.38]), 0.23 (95% CI [0.05, 0.23]) and 0.10, (95% CI [-0.06, 0.26]), respectively.
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