Obesity indices and adipokines in non-diabetic obese patients with early stages of chronic kidney disease.

However, the highly significant correlation between BAI and serum creatinine in non-CKD patients might result from better sensitivity of serum creatinine than eGFR for estimation of renal sufficiency in this patient group, as has been suggested by other authors [ 24 ].

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We also cannot exclude differences in muscle mass or the impact of age- and sex-dependent differences in calculating eGFR by the MDRD formula; however, differences in age, sex, and BMI did not reach statistical significance in our study.

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