Mark Canney, Dilshani Induruwage, Mila Tang, Natalia Alencar de Pinho, Lee Er, Yinshan Zhao, Ognjenka Djurdjev, Yo Han Ahn, Rouven Behnisch, Viviane Calice-Silva, Nicholas C Chesnaye, Martin H de Borst, Laura M Dember, Janis Dionne, Natalie Ebert, Susanne Eder, Anthony Fenton, Masafumi Fukagawa, Susan L Furth, Wendy E Hoy, Takahiro Imaizumi, Kitty J Jager, Vivekanand Jha, Hee Gyung Kang, Chagriya Kitiyakara, Gert Mayer, Kook-Hwan Oh, Ugochi Onu, Roberto Pecoits-Filho, Helmut Reichel, Anna Richards, Franz Schaefer, Elke Schaeffner, Johannes B Scheppach, Laura Sola, Ifeoma Ulasi, Jinwei Wang, Ashok K Yadav, Jianzhen Zhang, Harold I Feldman, Maarten W Taal, Bénédicte Stengel, Adeera Levin
INTRODUCTION: Despite recognized geographic and sex-based differences in hemoglobin in the general population, these factors are typically ignored in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in whom a single therapeutic range for hemoglobin is recommended. We sought to compare the distribution of hemoglobin across international nondialysis CKD populations and evaluate predictors of hemoglobin. METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, hemoglobin distribution was evaluated in each cohort overall and stratified by sex and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR)...
October 2023: KI Reports