Cystatin C-Based Equation to Estimate GFR without the Inclusion of Race and Sex

Hans Pottel¹, Jonas Björk¹, Andrew D Rule¹+22

• ¹From the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, KU Leuven Campus Kulak Kortrijk, Kortrijk (H.P.), and the Departments of Clinical Chemistry (E.C.) and Nephrology-Dialysis-Transplantation (P.D.), University of Liège, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire du Sart-Tilman, Liège - all in Belgium; the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University (J.B., A.Å.), Clinical Studies Sweden, Forum South (J.B., A.Å.), and the Department of Clinical Chemistry (A.G.), Skåne University Hospital, Lund, the Function Area Clinical Chemistry, Karolinska University Laboratory, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, and Department of Laboratory Medicine, Stockholm (M.H.), the Division of Clinical Chemistry, Huddinge (K.L.), the Department of Geriatrics, School Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet of Medical Sciences, Örebro University, Örebro (P.-O.S.), the Department of Medical Sciences, Clinical Chemistry, Uppsala University, Uppsala (A.L.), and the Department of Translational Medicine, Division of Medical Radiology, Lund University, Malmö (U.N.) - all in Sweden; the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (A.D.R.); Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Institute of Public Health, Berlin, Germany (N.E., E.S.); the Section of Nephrology, University Hospital of North Norway and Metabolic and Renal Research Group, Universitetet i Tromsø the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway (B.O.E., T.M.); Service de Néphrologie, Dialyse, Hypertension et Explorations Fonctionnelles Rénales, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon (L.D.), Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Bichat Hospital, and Université de Paris, INSERM Unité 1149 (E.V.-P.), and AP-HP, Bichat Hospital, and Université de Paris, Unité Mixte de Recherche S1138, Cordeliers Research Center (M.F.), Paris, Service de Néphrologie, Dialyse et Transplantations Rénales, Hôpital Nord, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne (C.M.), and the Department of Nephrology-Dialysis-Apheresis, Hôpital Universitaire Carémeau, Nîmes (P.D.) - all in France; Clinical Biochemistry, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust, Canterbury, United Kingdom (E.J.L.); the Renal Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Kinshasa University Hospital, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (J.B.B., E.K.S.); and the Département de Biochimie, Unité de Formation et de Recherche Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques, Université Felix Houphouët Boigny, Abidjan, Ivory Coast (E.Y., D.M.).