Talk:Renal function
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[edit] CKD 1 through 5?
Shouldn't there be a discussion of the Chronic Kidney disease stages 1 through 5 as they rate to GFR or eGFR? [1] BillpSea 05:43, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Proposed merger GFR into Renal Function
Currently both have almost identically dupicated information on GFR calculation. Renal function has best overall structure, gives equations for differing units and is the parent topic (indeed one perhaps should also mention DMSA and MAG-3 nuclear medicine studies of renal function and differential function between the two kidneys). Glomerular filtration rate has though some better laid out equations (I like the setting out of additional factors rather than having "constant" that is then defined in the text).David Ruben Talk 13:58, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
- The two articles have differing and complimentary references, Renal function has better primary sources for quoting the formulas (vs as an example GFR having ref to an online GFR calculator), whereas GFR article has more references talking about factors that influence results and equations.David Ruben Talk 14:17, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
Merged - I've also done quite a lot of rephrasing as discussion of GFR tended to give measuring creatinine as its example, which was then confusing when creatinine clearance later described. Also creatinine clearance described how it measures GFR, rather than approximates to this. I've also notice Creatinine clearance which duplicates again GFR and Cockcroft-Gault approximation formulas - I'll merge this in to for a single consistant description. David Ruben Talk 04:17, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
- I've pulled interwiki links across here when I merged, but that leaves several items fro teh same language - should I have left the links on teh relevant redirect pages of Glomerular filtration rate & creatinine clearance ? David Ruben Talk 05:35, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
