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Review
. 2018 Apr 3;190(13):E389-E393.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.170674.

Kidney age, not kidney disease

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Review

Kidney age, not kidney disease

Richard J Stevens et al. CMAJ. .

Erratum in

  • Kidney age, not kidney disease.
    [No authors listed] [No authors listed] CMAJ. 2019 Apr 1;191(13):E372. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.190278. CMAJ. 2019. PMID: 30936171 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
No abstract available

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: Richard Stevens reports acting as an independent statistician on a trial data monitoring committee for Novartis, outside the submitted work. Rafael Perera reports that his department has received funding from the National Institute for Health Research Programme Grants for Applied Research, during the conduct of the study.

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Figure 1:
Percentiles of age by estimated glomerular filtration rate (GFR) (mL/min/1.73m2), from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2015 to 2016. Red line denotes median age for a given GFR and blue lines denote 5th and 95th centiles.

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