Metabolic demand, renal mass and GFR changes in men and women: Lessons from living kidney donors and recipients.

BACKGROUND: The determinants of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and its changes over time are multiple and diverse. Nephron endowment is the starting point for GFR. Low renal endowment due to maternal undernutrition or premature birth as well as the…

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