Authors' Reply: Integer Cystatin C Values: Impact on Discordance Group Assignment and Accuracy of GFR-Estimating Equations

Edouard L Fu^{1

2

3}, Andrew S Levey⁴, Lesley A Inker⁴, Juan-Jesus Carrero²

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
³ Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
⁴ Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.

Comment

Edouard L Fu et al. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2023.

. 2023 Nov 1;34(11):1915-1916.

doi: 10.1681/ASN.0000000000000208.

Edouard L Fu^{1

2

3}, Andrew S Levey⁴, Lesley A Inker⁴, Juan-Jesus Carrero²

¹ Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
³ Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
⁴ Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.

No abstract available

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Accuracy of GFR Estimating Equations in Patients with Discordances between Creatinine and Cystatin C-Based Estimations.
Fu EL, Levey AS, Coresh J, Elinder CG, Rotmans JI, Dekker FW, Paik JM, Barany P, Grams ME, Inker LA, Carrero JJ. Fu EL, et al. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2023 Jul 1;34(7):1241-1251. doi: 10.1681/ASN.0000000000000128. Epub 2023 Mar 30. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2023. PMID: 36995139 Free PMC article.
Integer Cystatin C Values: Impact on Discordance Group Assignment and Accuracy of GFR-Estimating Equations.
Groothof D, Shehab NBN, Erler NS, Bakker SJL. Groothof D, et al. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2023 Nov 1;34(11):1915-1916. doi: 10.1681/ASN.0000000000000184. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2023. PMID: 37921832 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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