Lower eGFR 1 year after kidney transplant is associated with shorter allograft and patient
survival. We examined how practice changes in the past decade correlated with time trends
in average eGFR at 1 year after kidney transplant in the United States in a cohort of 189,944
patients who received a kidney transplant between 2001 and 2013. We calculated the
average eGFR at 1 year after transplant for the recipient cohort of each year using the
appropriate Modification of Diet in Renal Disease equation depending on the prevailing …