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. 2022 Sep 15;9:769329. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2022.769329

Table 1.

Demographic characteristics, age ranges of study population, the corresponding changes of GFR, methods used to measure GFR.

References Sample Demographic
characteristics
Age range
(years)
Changes in GFR with
age
Methods used
to analyze
GFR
Davies et al. (21) 70 healthy individuals 100% male 24–89 GFR decline: from 122.8 to 65.3 mL/min/1.73 m2 (decreasing about 8 mL/min/1.73 m2 per decade) Inulin clearance
Lindeman et al. (23) 254 healthy kidney subjects (non-proteinuric diabetes were included) 98% american predominately white 22–97 Creatinine clearence decline: 0.75 ml/min per year Creatinine clearance
Fuiano et al. (24) 26 living kidney donors 100% males, young n = 15, older n = 11 19–32
65–76
GFR in young: 127 ± 5.8 mL/min/1.73 m2
GFR in older: 79 ± 4 mL/min/1.73 m2
Inulin clearance
Rule et al. (26) 365 living kidney donors 47.4% male, 80.3% white, age:
41.1 ± 11.4 yr
18–71 GFR decline: 4.9 mL/min/1.73 m2 per decade Iothalamate clearance
Grewal et al. (29) 428 living kidney donors (241 aged > 40 yr) 49.1% male 40–73 GFR decline: 0.91 mL/min/1.73 m2 per decade 51Cr-EDTA clearance
Poggio et al. (12) 1,057 living kidney donors 44% male, 11% African American 38.5 ± 10.4 GFR decline: 1.49 ± 0.61 ml/min/1.73 m2 per decade 125I-Iothalamate clearance
Rule et al. (2) 1,203 adult living kidney donors 42% male, 93% white 18–77 GFR decline: 6.3 mL/min/1.73 m2 per decade Iothalamate clearance
Kasiske et al. (27) 201 kidney donors, 203 paired controls 32% male 43.1 ± 11.9 43.4 ± 11.3 In kidney donors, GFR
increased 1.47 ± 5.02 mL/min per year In controls, GFR declined 0.36 ± 7.55 mL/min per year
Iohexol
Baba et al. (28) 75,521 healthy individuals 47% male 42.8 ± 10.4 eGFR decline: 1.07 ± 0.42 ml/min/1.73 m2per year. 3-variable Japanese equation
Pottel et al. (30, 31) 633 living kidney donors 36.8% male 20–>70 GFR decline: 0.89 ml/min/1.73 m2 per year Inulin, iohexol, or 51Cr-EDTA
Eriksen et al. (32) 1,594 healthy individuals from the general population 49% male 42% hypertension BMI:27.2 Kg/m2
UACR: 0.23 mg/mmol
50–62 GFR decline: 0.95 ± 2.23 ml/min/1.73 m2 per year Iohexol clearance
Waas et al. (34) 13,381 individuals from a German population cohort 48.7% male 23.5% obese 35–74 eGFR decline: approximately 1 ml/min/1.73 m2 per year eGFR calculated by CKD-EPI