Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
Volume 77, Issue 2 , Pages 320-326 , August 2007

Superiority of the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease equation over the Cockcroft–Gault equation in screening for impaired kidney function in Japanese Americans

  • Fernando Gerchman

      Affiliations

    • Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition, VA Puget Sound Health Care System and University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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  • Jenny Tong

      Affiliations

    • Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition, VA Puget Sound Health Care System and University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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  • Kristina M. Utzschneider

      Affiliations

    • Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition, VA Puget Sound Health Care System and University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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  • Rebecca L. Hull

      Affiliations

    • Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition, VA Puget Sound Health Care System and University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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  • Sakeneh Zraika

      Affiliations

    • Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition, VA Puget Sound Health Care System and University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
    • ,
  • Jayalakshmi Udayasankar

      Affiliations

    • Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition, VA Puget Sound Health Care System and University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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  • Marguerite J. McNeely

      Affiliations

    • Division of General Internal Medicine, VA Puget Sound Health Care System and University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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  • Dennis L. Andress

      Affiliations

    • Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, VA Puget Sound Health Care System and University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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  • Donna L. Leonetti

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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  • Edward J. Boyko

      Affiliations

    • Division of General Internal Medicine, VA Puget Sound Health Care System and University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
    • Epidemiology Research Information Center, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle WA, USA
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  • Wilfred Y. Fujimoto

      Affiliations

    • Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition, VA Puget Sound Health Care System and University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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  • Steven E. Kahn

      Affiliations

    • Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition, VA Puget Sound Health Care System and University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: VA Puget Sound Health Care System and University of Washington (151), 1660 S. Columbian Way, Seattle, WA 98108, USA. Tel.: +1 206 764 2148; fax: +1 206 277 3011.

Received 31 October 2006 ,Accepted 6 November 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.diabres.2006.11.001

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
Volume 77, Issue 2 , Pages 320-326 , August 2007

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