Abstract Background: the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) method of renal
function estimation has not been extensively assessed in elderly patients. We needed to …

OBJECTIVE: Many older adults have decreased kidney function. Practitioners should be
informed that no single clinical assessment method is validated in predicting their kidney …

Background Both the Cockcroft–Gault and the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD)
equations are used to guide adjustment of medication dose according to renal function …

Methods The clinical, prescribed drug and biochemical characteristics of our cohort have
been reported previously [12]. Of the 52 patients originally recruited to the study, 46 had …

Background. Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is the best index of kidney function.
Mathematical estimations of GFR, based on serum creatinine (SCr), are a clinically useful …

Methods We compared the GFR estimations from the Cockcroft-Gault and MDRD equations
in a cohort of 2765 French subjects aged 75 years and older. Data were collected from both …

Background: The National Kidney Foundation's practice guidelines for chronic kidney
disease recommend using the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) equation for …

Background: detecting chronic kidney disease (CKD) may have important implications for
the management of older and frail people. We aimed at investigating whether clinical setting …

Aims The C ockcroft‐G ault (CG), the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) and the
CKD‐EPI (C hronic K idney D isease Epidemiology Collaboration) formulae are often used …

The objectives of this study were to compare the estimations of renal function obtained with
six equations, including the Cockcroft–Gault (CG), Modification of Diet in Renal Disease …