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New Predictive Equations Improve Monitoring of Kidney Function in Patients With Diabetes

Marie-Christine Beauvieux, PHD¹, Franoise Le Moigne, PD¹, Catherine Lasseur, MD², Christelle Raffaitin, MD², Caroline Perlemoine, MD³, Nicole Barthe, PD⁴, Philippe Chauveau, MD², Christian Combe, PHD², Henri Gin, PHD³ and Vincent Rigalleau, PHD³

¹ Biochemistry Laboratory, Hôpital Haut-Lévêque, Pessac, France
² Nephrology, Hôpital Pellegrin, Place Amélie Raba-Léon, Bordeaux, France
³ Nutrition and Diabetes, Hôpital Haut-Lévêque, Pessac, France
⁴ Nuclear Medicine Laboratory, Hôpital Haut-Lévêque, Pessac, France

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Marie-Christine Beauvieux, Laboratoire de Biochimie, Hôpital Haut-Lévêque, Avenue de Magellan, 33604 Bordeaux Cedex, France. E-mail: marie-christine.beauvieux{at}chu-bordeaux.fr

OBJECTIVE—The Cockcroft-Gault and Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) equations poorly predict glomerular filtration rate (GFR) decline in diabetic patients. We sought to discover whether new equations based on serum creatinine (the Mayo Clinic Quadratic [MCQ] or reexpressed MDRD equations) or four cystatin C–based equations (glomerular filtration rate estimated via cystatin formula [Cys-eGFR]) were less biased and better predicted GFR changes.

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS—In 124 diabetic patients with a large range of isotopic GFR (iGFR) (56.1 ± 35.3 ml/min per 1.73 m² [range 5–164]), we compared the performances of the equations before and after categorization in GFR tertiles. A total of 20 patients had a second determination 2 years later.

RESULTS—The Cockcroft-Gault equation was the least precise. The MDRD equation was the most precise but the most biased according to the Bland-Altman procedure. By contrast with the MDRD and, to a lesser extent, the MCQ, three of the four Cys-eGFRs were not biased. All equations overestimated the low GFRs, whereas only the MDRD and Rule's Cys-eGFR equations underestimated the high GFRs. For the subjects studied twice, iGFR changed by –8.5 ± 17.9 ml/min per 1.73 m². GFR changes estimated by the Cockcroft-Gault (–4.5 ± 6.8) and MDRD (–5.7 ± 6.2) equations did not correlate with the isotopic changes, whereas new equation-predicted changes did: MCQ: –8.7 ± 9.4 (r = 0.44, P < 0.05) and all four Cys-eGFRs: –6.2 ± 7.4 to –7.3 ± 8.4 (r = 0.60 to 0.62, all P < 0.005), such as 100/cystatin-C (r = 0.61, P < 0.005).

CONCLUSIONS—The new predictive equations better estimate GFR than the Cockcroft-Gault equation. Although the MDRD equation remains the most accurate, it poorly predicts GFR decline, as it overestimates low and underestimates high GFRs. This bias is lesser with the MCQ and Cys-eGFR equations, so they better predict GFR changes.

Abbreviations: CKD, chronic kidney disease • Cys-eGFR, glomerular filtration rate estimated via cystatin formula • GFR, glomerular filtration rate • iGFR, isotopic GFR • MCQ, Mayo Clinic Quadratic • MDRD, Modification of Diet in Renal Disease • rMDRD, reexpressed MDRD • ROC, receiver-operating characteristic

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