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BMC Nephrology is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of the prevention, diagnosis and management of kidney and associated disorders, as well as related molecular genetics, pathophysiology, and epidemiology.
BMC Nephrology (ISSN 1471-2369) is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, CAS, Scopus, EMBASE and Google Scholar.
BMC Nephrology 2008, 9 :9
In an ethnically diverse cohort, serum levels of cystatin C are correlated with inflammatory and procoagulant markers at all stages of kidney dysfunction, while creatinine-based estimated glomerular filtration rates show a similar association with chronic kidney disease.
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