Research Article
No Race-Ethnicity Adjustment in CKD-EPI Equations Is Required for Estimating Glomerular Filtration Rate in the Brazilian Population
Table 2
General characteristics of the 100 participants.
| | Age (years) | 58 ± 14 |
| | Male gender, n (%) | 46 (46%) | | Race-ethnicity, n (%) | | | White | 39 (39%) | | African Brazilian | 61 (61%) |
| | Height (cm) | 164 ± 9 | | Weight (kg) | 74.9 ± 15.1 | | Body mass index (kg/m2) | 27.3 ± 5.4 | | Serum creatinine (mg/dL) | 1.61 (1.08–2.33) | | Serum cystatin C (mg/L) | 1.65 (1.11–2.45) |
| | Primary renal disease, n (%) | | | Hypertension | 31 (31%) | | Diabetes | 19 (19%) | | Chronic glomerulonephritis | 13 (13%) | | Lupus nephritis | 9 (9%) | | Chronic pyelonephritis | 7 (7%) | | Polycystic kidney | 4 (4%) | | Others | 17 (17%) |
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Values are expressed as frequency, mean ± standard deviation or median (interquartile range).
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