Eknoyan G
Renal Section, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.
Kidney Int. 2007 Nov;72(10):1183-5. doi: 10.1038/sj.ki.5002576.
The definition and staging of chronic kidney disease (CKD) have provided a unifying approach to CKD that has generated considerable new information on the epidemiology, course, outcomes, and burden of CKD. Eriksen and Ingebretsen propose a change in the current 3 months chronicity criterion of CKD. Whereas longer lengths of chronicity changed the number of patients in stages 3 and 4, mortality remained high in each of their new groupings. Essentially, CKD persisted and remained a risk multiplier of death.
慢性肾脏病（CKD）的定义和分期为CKD提供了一种统一的方法，产生了关于CKD的流行病学、病程、结局和负担的大量新信息。埃里克森和英格布雷森提议改变CKD目前3个月的慢性标准。虽然更长的慢性时长改变了3期和4期患者的数量，但在他们的每个新分组中死亡率仍然很高。从本质上讲，CKD持续存在，仍然是死亡的风险倍增因素。
