Serum cystatin C is superior to serum creatinine as a marker of kidney function: a meta-analysis.

By V. Dharnidharka, Charles Kwon, G. Stevens. American Journal of Kidney Diseases, 2002

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Using Serum Creatinine To Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate: Accuracy in Good Health and in Chronic Kidney Disease (2004, background): “Future equations with alternative serum analytes, such as cystatin C (26), may ultimately be more accurate in predicting GFR across different populations.”
Cardiorenal syndrome. (2008, positive): “Cystatin C appears to be a better predictor of glomerular function than serum creatinine in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) because its blood levels are not affected by age, gender, race, or muscle mass (46).”
Acute kidney injury, mortality, length of stay, and costs in hospitalized patients. (2005, background): “We considered nominal changes in SCr, percentage changes, percentage changes to a minimum peak, and other previously used algorithms that incorporated the exponential relation between SCr and GFR. Finally, we broadly classified individuals by a combination of ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes and prescribed ”
Cystatin C as a marker of GFR--history, indications, and future research. (2005, methodology): “There is high-level evidence that the diagnostic sensitivity for the detection of mildly impaired GFR is superior [16].”
Influence of muscle mass and physical activity on serum and urinary creatinine and serum cystatin C. (2008, methodology): “An overall meta-analysis based on 46 studies performed on adults and children demonstrated, by means of receiver operating characteristic analysis, that cystatin C is superior to serum creatinine as a marker of kidney function (32).”
Early detection of acute renal failure by serum cystatin C. (2004, result): “This finding was confirmed by a recent meta-analysi”
Prevalence of chronic kidney disease in population-based studies: Systematic review (2008, background): “Cystatin C is under investigation as a promising marker for serum creatinine in estimating GFR [70,71].”