Although recommended, both the Cockcroft and Gault formula (CG) and the modification of diet in renal disease (MDRD) equation are not ideally predictive of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) in diabetic subjects; we tested whether the new Mayo Clinic Quadratic (MCQ) equation performed better.Vincent...
formula to estimate GFR in a patient where renal disease is unknown. However, in a series of 162 potential kidney donors and 882 patients with chronic kidney disease stages 1 and 2, Froissart et al. =-=[15]-=- analysed the MC equation and found an overestimation of true GFR in both ...