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Individualizing Pharmacotherapy in Patients with Renal Impairment: The Validity of the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease Formula in Specific Patient Populations with a Glomerular Filtration Rate below 60 Ml/Min. A Systematic Review

  • Willemijn L. Eppenga ,

    Contributed equally to this work with: Willemijn L. Eppenga, Peter A. G. M. De Smet

    Willemijn.Eppenga@radboudumc.nl

    Affiliation Radboud University Medical Center, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, IQ Healthcare, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

  • Cornelis Kramers ,

    ‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

    Affiliations Radboud University Medical Center, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

  • Hieronymus J. Derijks,

    Affiliations Hospital Pharmacy ‘ZANOB’, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacotherapy, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences (UIPS), Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  • Michel Wensing ,

    ‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

    Affiliation Radboud University Medical Center, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, IQ Healthcare, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

  • Jack F. M. Wetzels ,

    ‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

    Affiliation Radboud University Medical Center, Department of Nephrology, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

  • Peter A. G. M. De Smet

    Contributed equally to this work with: Willemijn L. Eppenga, Peter A. G. M. De Smet

    Affiliations Radboud University Medical Center, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, IQ Healthcare, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Radboud University Medical Center, Department of Pharmacy, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Abstract

Background

The Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) formula is widely used in clinical practice to assess the correct drug dose. This formula is based on serum creatinine levels which might be influenced by chronic diseases itself or the effects of the chronic diseases. We conducted a systematic review to determine the validity of the MDRD formula in specific patient populations with renal impairment: elderly, hospitalized and obese patients, patients with cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases, diabetes mellitus, liver cirrhosis and human immunodeficiency virus.

Methods and Findings

We searched for articles in Pubmed published from January 1999 through January 2014. Selection criteria were (1) patients with a glomerular filtration rate (GFR) < 60 ml/min (/1.73m2), (2) MDRD formula compared with a gold standard and (3) statistical analysis focused on bias, precision and/or accuracy. Data extraction was done by the first author and checked by a second author. A bias of 20% or less, a precision of 30% or less and an accuracy expressed as P30% of 80% or higher were indicators of the validity of the MDRD formula. In total we included 27 studies. The number of patients included ranged from 8 to 1831. The gold standard and measurement method used varied across the studies. For none of the specific patient populations the studies provided sufficient evidence of validity of the MDRD formula regarding the three parameters. For patients with diabetes mellitus and liver cirrhosis, hospitalized patients and elderly with moderate to severe renal impairment we concluded that the MDRD formula is not valid. Limitations of the review are the lack of considering the method of measuring serum creatinine levels and the type of gold standard used.

Conclusion

In several specific patient populations with renal impairment the use of the MDRD formula is not valid or has uncertain validity.

Introduction

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a common condition and affects up to 13% of the population.[1] CKD is defined as a glomerular filtration rate (GFR) < 60 ml/min/1.73m2 or evidence of kidney damage (proteinuria, haematuria and/or abnormalities of the kidney) for at least 3 months regardless of underlying cause.[2,3] CKD is associated with adverse outcomes, such as kidney failure, cardiovascular diseases and death.[2,4,5] Since laboratories routinely report the estimated GFR (eGFR) if serum creatinine testing is ordered, the awareness of impaired renal function among physicians has increased in recent years.[6,7,8]

The eGFR is not only used to diagnose CKD or to monitor its course in patients with kidney disease, but also to guide decisions in pharmacotherapy. Potential uses of the eGFR in drug therapy are: (1) signal that treatment of CKD is warranted, (2) signal that a drug may be contraindicated, (3) signal that renal drug toxicity is developing, (4) signal that the risk of an adverse drug reaction or drug-drug interaction may be increased or (5) signal that a drug may be less effective. Approximately 20–30% of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) leading to hospital admission of elderly patients are related to impaired renal function.[9,10] This was mainly due to excessive doses of drugs and could have been avoided by close monitoring of renal function and adjustment of pharmacotherapy in terms of the prescribed agent(s) and/or the prescribed dosage(s).[9]

Drug dosing recommendations traditionally have used the Cockcroft and Gault (CG) formula to estimate creatinine clearance and therefore the ability of the kidney to excrete drugs.[6,11] This formula was developed in 249 adult men by using the mean 24-h urine creatinine excretion from two urine collections.[12,13]. The adjustment factor for women was based on a theoretical 15% lower muscle mass.[13,14] Approximately 15 years ago a new formula was developed that provided a more accurate estimation of GFR.[15,16] The original six variable Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) formula, MDRD-6, was developed in a sample of 1070 ambulatory, predominantly white patients with CKD.[15] The six variables were serum creatinine concentration, age, sex, ethnicity, and serum urea nitrogen and albumin concentrations.[15] Several years later (in the year 2000), this formula was simplified to 4 variables (serum creatinine concentration, age, sex and ethnicity), MDRD-4.[16] The latter is now routinely used by many clinical laboratories worldwide.[17,18,19,20] Variability in the use of different creatinine assays among clinical laboratories led to the introduction of isotope dilution mass spectrometry (IDMS) calibration of the creatinine assays.[17,21,22] This led to a re-expression of the MDRD formulas. The MDRD formulas are presented in Box 1.

Box 1. MDRD equations.

MDRD-6 [15]

170 x Scr−0.999 x age−0.176 x BUN−0.170 x albumin+0.318x 1.180 (if black) x 0.762 (if female)

Re-expressed after IDMS calibration [21]

161.5 x Scr−0.999 x age−0.176 x BUN−0.170 x albumin+0.318x 1.180 (if black) x 0.762 (if female)

MDRD-4 [16]

186 x Scr−1.154 x age−0.203 x 1.212 (if black) x 0.742 (if female)

Re-expressed after IDMS calibration [21]

175 x Scr−1.154 x age−0.203 x 1.212 (if black) x 0.742 (if female)

Scr = serum creatinine (mg/dL)

BUN = blood urea nitrogen (mg/dL)

Albumin (g/dL)

Although there is an ongoing debate on whether the MDRD formula can safely replace the CG formula in drug dosing [20,23], the MDRD formula is now widely used in clinical practice for drug dosing in various patient populations.[19,24,25] The aim of this article is to review systematically the validity and limitations of the MDRD formula in specific patient populations with a known glomerular filtration rate below 60 ml/min where adjustment of the pharmacotherapy usually should take place.

Background

The MDRD formula is an estimation of the true GFR. The true GFR is the product of the filtration rate in single nephrons and the number of nephrons in both kidneys.[4] The ideal filtration marker to determine the true GFR is freely filtered across capillary walls, unhindered by its size, charge or binding to plasma proteins and neither secreted nor reabsorbed.[4] Inulin fulfils these criteria, but is not widely used for this purpose in clinical practice, because of the necessity for intravenous infusion and the difficult chemical assay required for inulin measurement.[26] The true GFR can also be measured using other markers such as 51chromium ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (51Cr-EDTA), technetium-labelled diethylene-triamine-pentacetate (99mTc-DTPA), iohexol and iothalamate.[27] However, these markers are also impractical for routine clinical use due to limited access to necessary diagnostic facilities and high costs.[3,28]

Creatinine is generally considered a good filtration marker to estimate the renal function in routine clinical practice. Serum creatinine level is a function of endogenous creatinine production, exogenous creatinine supply and renal elimination (glomerular filtration and tubular secretion).[29] There is a clear inverse correlation between serum creatinine levels and the true GFR. However there are several factors which may influence serum creatinine levels without affecting GFR itself, which potentially distort the interpretation of values for clinical use (see Fig. 1).[3,4,27,30,31]

Endogenous creatinine production

Creatinine is formed primarily in skeletal muscles from creatine and creatine phosphate.[29] Muscle mass is the most important determinant of total body creatine content and therefore of the creatinine production.[26] Muscle mass is related to age, sex and race. [4,26,32] Although the MDRD formula corrects for age, sex and race, the formula assumes an average muscle mass. However, muscle mass can deviate across individuals in anabolic or catabolic conditions. Thus, muscle-waisting conditions, e.g. due to neuromuscular disease, chronic glucocorticoid therapy, hyperthyroidism, amputation or progressive muscular dystrophy are associated with decreased creatinine production, whereas exercise and body building are associated with increased creatinine generation. [4,26,32] In diseases with abnormally low muscle mass, serum creatinine levels will be relatively low, leading to an overestimation of the GFR, whereas the opposite will occur when the muscle mass is abnormally high.

In addition, the liver plays a major role in the biosynthesis of creatine. The rate of creatine formation and therefore the rate of creatinine production in the muscles is reduced in certain types of hepatic diseases.[33]

Exogenous creatinine supply

Dietary intake of creatinine and creatine can be either unusually high (ingestion of cooked meat, creatine supplementation) or unusually low (vegetarian diet).[4,26] This may lead to underestimation and overestimation of the GFR, respectively.

Laboratory assay of serum creatinine

Two assays are now mostly used in clinical practice to measure serum creatinine levels, namely the alkaline picrate assay (Jaffe) and the enzymatic assay. The Jaffe assay is known to have more interfering substances than the enzymatic method, which may result in a deviation of the true serum creatinine level up to 20%.[3,34] Substances which interfere with the Jaffe assay and may lead to an overestimation of serum creatinine levels include bilirubine, 5-aminolevulic acid, and high dose of lactulose. High doses of furosemide may lead to an underestimation of serum creatinine levels and cephalosporins may lead to both over- and underestimation of serum creatinine levels.[35,36,37,38,39] Substances which interfere with the enzymatic assay include dopamine, dobutamine, glucose and flucytosine.[26,35,36] These interferences may lead to an underestimation of serum creatinine levels and therefore an overestimation of the GFR, except for flucytosine. Flucytosine may overestimate serum creatinine levels with more than 100% and therefore underestimate the GFR.[36]

In addition to interferences of certain drugs in the creatinine assays, there are also differences in creatinine values between clinical laboratories due to differences in the creatinine assays and their calibration. Therefore a uniform creatinine measurement and a universal known calibration of the serum creatinine assays has led to the introduction of IDMS calibration.[18,40]

Creatinine secretion

Creatinine is not only excreted by glomerular filtration, but also by the renal tubules. In addition, in patients with severe renal impairment a substantial fraction of the daily creatinine production is eliminated via extrarenal routes.[26] This might lead to relatively low serum creatinine levels, leading to an overestimation of the GFR. The creatinine secretion might also be altered in situations such as trauma, prolonged immobilization and hepatic disease.[26] The etiology of these changes is unknown. Some drugs, such as cimetidine, trimethoprim and fibrates (except gemfibrozil) also alter the secretion of creatinine due to inhibition of the tubular secretion.[4,36,41] As a result serum creatinine levels will increase, independent of the GFR, and the use of serum creatinine based formulas will thus cause an underestimation of GFR. Of note, blocking creatinine secretion ensures a better reflection of the true GFR with creatinine-based formulas.[42,43]

Serum creatinine levels thus provide only a rough guide to the true GFR.[26] While the dependence of serum creatinine on muscle mass is partially accounted for in the MDRD formula (age, sex and race), various other factors influencing both production and secretion of creatinine can be present. Awareness of these limitations of creatinine-based formulas which estimate GFR is therefore necessary. In addition, variability in eGFRs also includes underlying biological intraindividual and interindividual variation of serum creatinine values ranging from 6.3% to 17%.[12,22,44]

Of note, serum creatinine levels and creatinine based formulas should only be used in patients with stable renal function. In cases of rapidly changing GFR, the actual serum creatinine levels will not reflect the GFR, until steady-state has been reached.[45] A diagnosis of a low GFR must therefore rely on multiple measures of serum creatinine levels.[46]

Methods

Search strategy

We performed a systematic search in the Pubmed database for published studies about the validity of the MDRD formula in diverse patient populations. The search focused on publications between January 1999 (the introduction of the MDRD formula [15]) and January 2014. We searched for both the MDRD-4 and MDRD-6 formulas. The terms used for the overall search strategy have been listed in S1 File.

Selection criteria

We focused on studies in patients with a measured GFR (mGFR) or estimated GFR (eGFR) < 60 ml/min(/1.73m2). Other selection criteria were (1) MDRD formula compared with a gold standard (defined as: 99mTc-DTPA, inulin (including the analogue sinistrin[47]), 51Cr-EDTA, 125I-iothalamate and Iohexol) and (2) statistical analysis and reporting focused on bias, precision and/or accuracy (see Table 1 for definitions).

We excluded case reports, abstracts, and posters. Articles which reproduced data already published elsewhere were carefully reviewed. Only if newer data added information to our review, the article was included.

Selection of patient population

In this review we will first discuss three more general patient groups, which were inadequately represented in the development of the MDRD formula, namely 1) elderly patients, 2) hospitalized patients and 3) obese patients.

The MDRD formula was developed in a relatively young patient population (mean age: 51 + 13 years) with CKD.[15,48] The mean body weight was 79.6 + 16.8 kg and the mean body surface area (BSA) was 1.91 + 0.23 m2.[15] The body mass index (BMI) calculated from the mean weight and BSA is approximately 28 kg/m2, so the population was not obese (> 30 kg/m2) as a whole. Creatinine production decreases as muscle mass decreases with age or due to immobility, which is common in hospitalized patients.[49] When this results in low serum creatinine levels creatinine-based formulas may overestimate the GFR.[50] In addition, elderly, malnourished, and immobilized patients are at special risk of having depressed GFR but normal serum creatinine levels, so normal serum creatinine concentration cannot exclude significant renal impairment.[51,52,53] Because of these considerations we found elderly patients (> 65 years), hospitalized patients and obese patients (> 30 kg/m2) of interest for further evaluation.

Second, we will discuss four common categories of chronic diseases, which are the leading cause of death in the developed world: 4) cardiovascular diseases (e.g. myocardial infarction, heart failure and stroke), 5) cancer, 6) chronic respiratory diseases (like chronic obstructed pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma), and 7) diabetes mellitus.[54] These diseases are associated with the use of multiple drugs of which a substantial part is renally excreted.

The chronic diseases itself or the effects of the chronic diseases may alter serum creatinine levels without affecting GFR itself. In patients with chronic heart failure, a cardiovascular disease, the effective circulating volume is reduced, blood pressure is low and therefore renal perfusion pressure is reduced, leading to reduced filtration rate in viable nephrons and probably also to reduced excretion of creatinine. [55,56] The tubuli, however, are still capable of secreting creatinine actively.[55] In addition, the cornerstone in heart failure therapy are renin-angiotensin-aldosterone-system (RAAS) inhibitors, which also may reduce glomerular filtration pressure and therefore excretion of creatinine.[56] These different mechanisms may influence serum creatinine levels. In addition, patients with heart failure are often immobile and therefore at risk for having lower serum creatinine levels.

In cancer and COPD unknown mechanisms may influence creatinine levels without affecting GFR, but reduced muscle mass and malnourishment may also be present. This latter may result in low serum creatinine levels and therefore in overestimation of the GFR.

In diabetes mellitus, the choice of drugs or dosages is influenced by GFR.[57]

Finally, we searched for articles about 8) other chronic diseases in which reduced muscle mass (mainly due to immobility and malnutrition) can be present, which may render the MDRD formula less valid. Such diseases include neuromuscular diseases, rheumatoid arthritis, cystic fibrosis, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and liver diseases.[58,59,60,61,62] In certain liver diseases the production of serum creatinine is also reduced to approximately one half of the rate of patients with normal hepatic function.[58,60,63] Hyperbilirubinemia is also common among patients with liver diseases. Elevated serum bilirubine levels interfere with the Jaffe method to measure creatinine, which might lead to misleadingly low serum creatinine levels.[35,58,64]

Extraction of studies

The data and outcomes reported in the selected articles were summarized, specifically focusing on the selection of the study population, age, mean mGFR, type of creatinine assay used, type of gold standard used, mean eGFR and the outcome measures as defined in Table 1. Data extraction was done by the first author (WE) and checked by a second author (MW). Description of the findings focused on:

  1. number of patients included;
  2. outcome measures;
  3. method of measuring true GFR.[27,65]

Ad (a) number of patients included: Preferably more than 100 patients should be included. [5,17] Studies with more than 100 patients included were considered of higher value in the interpretation than studies with less than 100 patients.

Ad (b) outcome measures: One of our inclusion criteria concerned the presence of outcome measures: bias, precision and accuracy. Bias represents systematic error, precision represents random error and accuracy represents both (see Fig. 2).

In developing a model or formula, bias can to some extent be corrected by means of a correction factor. An example is the correction factor of 1.212 for Black-Americans in the MDRD formula.[15] Remaining bias refers to confounding factors for which corrections have not been included. It is not possible to completely correct for lack of precision (random error) in a model or formula. Precision is therefore an important indicator for the evaluation of the reliability of a clinical measure. Precision has been defined as the variance of the bias. The wider the variance of the bias, the higher the number that represents the precision, or in other words a wide imprecision. Accuracy is an validity indicator, which represents both precision and bias, thus systematic and random error. Accuracy is often expressed as a percentage of estimates within k% of mGFR (Pk%). This outcome measure is probably most easily to interpret from a clinical perspective. For example, if P30 is 50%, it means that in half of the cases the eGFR falls within + 30% of the mGFR. Due to intraindividual and interindividual variation of serum creatinine levels and analytical variation of the measurement of serum creatinine levels and other influencing factors a P30% of 100% will hardly be achievable.[5,12,22] In line with other authors we considered a bias of 20% or less, a precision of 30% or less and an accuracy expressed as P30% of 80% or higher as indicator of sufficient validity.[14,66,67]

Ad (c) method of measuring true GFR: Several methods for true GFR measurement are available, including urinary clearance, plasma clearance or a combination of both from exogenous markers, such as 99mTc-DTPA, 51Cr-EDTA, 125I-iothalamate and Iohexol.[68,69] With urinary clearance, two to four 20 to 30 minutes urine collections are obtained, after administration of the exogenous marker. Urinary clearance is computed as the urine concentration of the exogenous marker multiplied by the volume of the timed urine sample, and divided by the average plasma concentration during the same time period.[27] Plasma clearance is computed from the amount of the exogenous marker administered divided by the area under the curve of plasma concentration over time. The best estimate is a two-compartment model that requires blood sampling two to three time points until 60 minutes and one to three time points from 120 minutes forward.[27]

The clearance of inulin is determined by collecting three sets of 30 minutes urinary clearance periods during a continuous intravenous infusion with 1% of inulin. Blood samples should be collected at least three times at the midpoint of the urine collections. Bladder catheterization is necessary to assure complete urine collection.[27,70] Tests containing sinistrin, an analogue of inulin and also a fructan, is frequently used as a gold standard for the measurement of GFR and therefore included in our review.[47,71]

Results and Interpretation

We identified 1179 citations with the search terms listed in S1 File. In total we included 27 studies. The flow of study selection is reported in Fig. 3.

In Table 2 the most important information from the selected studies is summarized.

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Table 2. Validity of the MDRD in specific patient populations.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0116403.t002

The PRISMA checklist is provided as S1 PRISMA Checklist.

Elderly patients

Background.

CKD is common in elderly and is associated with a high risk of cardiovascular complications.[66,69] Early recognition, intervention and management of patients with CKD by physicians has been shown to slow progression of disease and decrease complications.[72] Accurate estimate of GFR is important to detect elderly patients at risk for progressive CKD, but also in order to guide drug therapy of potentially nephrotoxic drugs, or to adapt therapy with renally excreted drugs which is often desirable in elderly patients on polypharmacy.[73,74,75]

Summary of the selected articles.

We included nine studies, four of which were conducted in 2013. The definition of elderly or older patients ranged from 65 to 80 years or older. The mean bias reported ranged from an underestimation of 20 ml/min/1.73m2 in the study of Bevc et al. to an overestimation of 29% in the study of Drenth-van Maanen et al.[47,76] Interpretation of precision is more difficult. The IQR of 11 ml/min/1.73m2 reported by Kilbride et al. is reasonable when considering persons with higher ranges of mGFR (around 60 ml/min/1.73m2), but would be less acceptable in the lower ranges of the mGFR. The accuracy reported as P30 was almost 80% which implies that the variance of the bias, the precision, is too large over the total range from 7 to 60 ml/min/1.73m2.[77] Although, four studies reported a bias within our 20% criteria[71,77,78,79], only two studies reported an accuracy above 80%, namely Stevens et al. and the subanalysis of the KDIGO CKD stage 3A in the study of Koppe et al.[71,79] In five studies (56%) the number of patients included exceeded 100.[71,76,77,79,80] Six out of nine studies described the method for measuring GFR adequately. The gold standards were reasonably performed, but only the studies of Drenth- van Maanen et al. and Froissart et al. met the number of blood samples taken over time as described above.[47,78]

Interpretation and conclusion.

The nine included studies were performed reasonably. There was only one study[79] in which the MDRD formula appeared to be valid. Earlier Pottelbergh et al. conducted a systematic review with broader selection criteria and reported both over- and underestimation of the mGFR.[69] They concluded that there is no accurate creatinine-based formula to evaluate renal function in elderly patients.[69] With the more recently published studies presented here, we can confirm the conclusion that the creatinine-based MDRD formula is not valid in elderly patients.

Hospitalized patients

Background.

Reduced GFR is one of the most important complications in critically ill patients and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality in the intensive care unit (ICU) population.[81,82] In addition, acute renal failure (ARF) is also associated with high mortality.[83] Early detection of renal dysfunction and subsequent adequate treatment is therefore necessary in the hospital care setting.[84] Estimation of the GFR is also necessary for appropriate treatment of critically ill and other hospitalized patients with renally excreted drugs.[85]

Summary of the selected articles.

In Table 2 three studies are presented, which fulfilled our inclusion criteria. All three studies reported an overestimation of the true GFR, ranging from a mean bias of 3.26 ml/min/1.73m2 in the study of Schuck et al to a median relative bias of 53% in the study of Poggio et al.[85,86] In the study of Poggio et al. the MDRD-6 formula seemed to perform slightly better than the MDRD-4 formula with a median bias of 46%.[85] Although the bias in the study of Schuck et al. seems low, the precision exceeded our criteria of 30%.[86] Only the study of Poggio et al reported accuracy, which appeared to be inadequate. P30 was 36% for the MDRD-6 formula and 31% for the MDRD-4 formula.[85] The measurement of the GFR with a gold standard was performed reasonably, although the spontaneous urination instead of catheterization in the study of Schuck et al. is questionable.[86] The number of patients only exceeded 100 in the study of Poggio et al.[85]

Interpretation and conclusion.

The MDRD formula is invalid in hospitalized patients on the internal medicine and nephrology ward. In the study of Poggio et al. selection bias was introduced, because the selection of patients was based on an individual nephrologist’s perception of laboratory values not reflecting actual GFR.[85] In the other two studies the study was conducted only on the internal medicine and nephrology ward. The study population may therefore not reflect the average hospitalized patient population. In conclusion, the eGFR may largely overestimate true GFR in hospitalized patients, but the impact of this effect in different populations of hospitalized patients is still insufficiently known.

Obese patients

Background.

Obesity is a well-recognized global health problem.[87] Obesity is associated with cardiovascular complications, type 2 diabetes mellitus, osteoarthritis, major depression and some cancers.[7,87] Obesity itself and its combination with these chronic diseases predispose individuals to develop CKD.[7,88] Considering the increasing number of obese patients the accuracy of the MDRD formula in obesity is of increasing importance.

Summary of the selected articles.

Two articles met our selection criteria. Both studies had a study population exceeding 100 patients. One study was compiled with data from different studies, so the measurement of the GFR was not described.[79] In the study of Bouquegneau et al. the measurement of the GFR was not adequately performed.[89] In both studies the true GFR and eGFR were normalized to ml/min/1.73m2. The bias was for both studies within our 20% criteria. The precision reported in the study of Bouquegnea et al. was slightly higher than 30%, but the accuracy was sufficient, P30 is 80%.[89] Stevens et al. reported also a sufficient accuracy, P30 of 82%.[79]

Interpretation and conclusion.

We found two studies, which conducted a subanalysis about the validity of the MDRD-4 formula in obese patients (BMI > 30 kg/m2). The performance of the MDRD-4 formula seemed valid, but the measurement of the gold standard could have been performed better. In conclusion, we were not able to draw conclusions about the validity of the MDRD formula in obese patients.

Cardiovascular diseases

Background.

Numerous studies about the prognostic value of the eGFR(MDRD) in cardiovascular diseases for clinical outcomes, such as mortality, have been published.[56,90,91,92,93,94] In patients with end-stage heart failure, irreversibly impaired renal function precludes eligibility for heart transplantation.[95] In addition, patients with cardiovascular diseases are at risk for polypharmacy and the use of drugs that require dosage adjustment in renal impairment.[96,97] Thus an accurate method to estimate GFR is essential.[98]

Summary of the selected articles.

One article met our selection criteria. The mean bias of −2 ml/min/1.73m2 with a precision of 9 ml/min/1.73m2 are within our criteria of 20% and 30%, respectively. However, the number of patients included was low. The measurement of the true GFR was not performed with a common method, a continuous infusion of 125I-iothalamate instead of a bolus injection.

Interpretation and conclusion.

In conclusion, we were not able to draw conclusions about the validity of the MDRD formula in patients with heart failure (or other cardiovascular diseases).

Cancer

Background.

Both cancer and its drug therapies can lead to renal impairment.[99] Renal impairment in patients with cancer is highly prevalent and has major clinical implications.[99,100] In the Belgian Renal Insufficiency and Anticancer Medication (BIRMA) study, the prevalence of renal impairment (eGFR < 90 ml/min/1.73m2) in patients with a range of cancer diagnosis was 64%.[101] 80% of the patients treated for cancer received at least one nephrotoxic drug and/or drugs for which dosage had to be adjusted in renal impairment.[101] In our ageing societies oncologists are likely to be faced with increasing numbers of patients with both cancer and renal impairment.[102,103]

Summary of the selected articles.

Four studies were selected and are presented in Table 2. None of these studies reported precision. Although the bias reported in the studies of Ainsworth et al. and Bolke et al. were within 20%, only the study of Faluyi et al. reported an accuracy >80% expressed as P30.[104,105,106] The low accuracy in the other studies implies a wide imprecision. The number of patients included in all three studies together exceeded 100. The measurement of GFR with a gold standard was not adequately performed in any of the studies. The best performed measurement of the GFR was in the study of Bolke et al. where 4 blood samples were withdrawn over a time period of 5 hours.[104]

Interpretation and conclusion.

Precision was not reported, the numbers of patients in the selected separate studies were low and only the measurement of the GFR in the study of Bolke et al. seemed robust. Yet, these studies suggest that the eGFR calculated with the MDRD formula in cancer patients with moderate to severe renal impairment may be substantially different from the mGFR for a substantial number of patients. There is no evidence that the use of the MDRD formula in drug dosing in patients with cancer and renal impairment is valid.

Chronic respiratory diseases

Background.

The most frequent chronic respiratory disease is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [107], which is associated with several comorbidities, such as hypertension, heart failure and diabetes.[107] Renal impairment is a significant risk factor for cardiovascular diseases for which COPD patients are at risk.[108] In addition, polypharmacy is frequent in patients with COPD.[108] An accurate estimation of the GFR seems therefore important.

Summary of the included articles.

No articles met our selection criteria.

Interpretation and conclusion.

When searching for articles about the validity of the MDRD formula in patients with COPD, we found some recently published articles on the prevalence of renal impairment in patients with COPD, which discussed the advantages of using creatinine-based formulas for estimating GFR rather than serum creatinine levels.[107,108] The prevalence of undiagnosed renal impairment (eGFR< 60 ml/min and normal serum creatinine levels) varied between 7 and 22%, and was higher in patients with cachexia and older age (>64 years).[107,108] This implies that the issue of the validity of the MDRD formula in COPD patients is still far from settled. In conclusion, we were not able to draw conclusions about the validity of the MDRD formula in patients with chronic respiratory diseases and moderate to severe renal impairment.

Diabetes mellitus

Background.

Diabetes mellitus is the leading cause of CKD.[109] Diabetic nephropathy affects around one-third of patients with diabetes and is the primary cause of end-stage renal disease worldwide.[57,109] Moreover, diabetic patients, especially those with impaired renal function, are at increased risk of cardiovascular events.[57,110] There is strong evidence that early detection of diabetic nephropathy leading to timely intervention improves long-term outcome.[111]

Summary of the selected articles.

Several studies have been published about the validity of the MDRD-4 formula in patients with diabetes mellitus. We included five studies. The bias reported in three out of five studies were within 20%. The precision (only reported by Iliadis et al. and Rigalleau et al.) was in the same range, namely a SD of approximately 10 ml/min/1.73m2, and within our criterion of 30%.[57,110] Despite the fact that both bias and precision reported met our criteria, the accuracy was not sufficient, which implies a relatively wide imprecision throughout the mGFR range.

In two out of five studies the included number of patients exceeded 100. The findings of two other studies which included nearly 90 patients were in the same range. With respect to the method for measuring GFR, the number of blood samples withdrawn in the study of Iliadis et al. (two blood samples) was probably marginal.[57] In the other four studies the method for GFR measurement was sufficient.

Interpretation and conclusion.

In four studies the MDRD-4 formula overestimated the mGFR. The overestimation of the GFR might lead to higher drug doses than necessary or to a late discontinuation of, for example, metformin use and therefore to a greater risk of adverse drug events. Although bias pointed in the same direction in four studies, the precision (= random error), which was not adequately reported, was probably too wide, which led to low accuracy. In conclusion, the MDRD formula is not valid in patients with diabetes mellitus and renal impairment.

Other chronic diseases

From various chronic diseases of interest, we decided to present the diseases of which we could include at least two studies. These diseases were liver cirrhosis and HIV-infection.

Liver cirrhosis

Background.

Renal dysfunction often accompanies later stages of chronic liver diseases and is strongly associated with increased mortality in both acute liver failure and liver cirrhosis.[58,112] Pretransplant serum creatinine level is a predictor of posttransplant mortality and posttransplant renal function. [63,113] Other risk factors to develop chronic kidney disease, such as diabetes mellitus, coronary heart disease, and hepatitis C, are common among patient with liver diseases.[113,114] It is therefore important to identify which patients with liver disease truly have renal impairment.[60]

Summary of the selected articles.

Two studies were included. The mean bias ranged from −10 ml/min/1.73m2 with the MDRD-6 formula in the study of Mindikoglu et al. to 19 ml/min/1.73m2 with the MDRD-4 formula in the study of Rognant et al..[114,115] The corresponding imprecision expressed as SD were 14 and 25 ml/min/1.73m2, respectively.[113,115] Both bias and imprecision were very wide for patients with a mGFR < 60 ml/min/1.73m2. Both over- and underestimation were reported, which resulted in an accuracy expressed as P30 of 40 to 62%.[113,115] The number of patients in the separate studies were below 100, but the measurements of the GFR were adequately performed.

Interpretation and conclusion.

The imprecision of the MDRD formula in the studies was very wide. Cholongitas et al. already reported that the MDRD overestimates the GFR to a great extent in a review in 2007.[112] The two more recently published articles confirm this conclusion. Remarkably, the study in which the MDRD-6 formula was used, reported an underestimation of the mGFR.[115] Despite the fact that only two studies met our selection criteria and per study less than 100 patients were included, the degree of over- and underestimation and precision is too large to justify the use of the MDRD formula in patients with liver cirrhosis and moderate to severe renal impairment.

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

Background.

Individuals with HIV infection have an increased risk of kidney disease.[116] HIV infection may result in HIV-associated nephropathy, immune complex kidney disease and ARF.[117,118] Moreover, progression to end-stage kidney disease, which may require hemodialysis, is common.[119,120,121] These conditions are associated with progression to acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and death.[118,119] In addition, HIV itself may influence other risk factors for kidney disease, such as lipid levels, insulin resistance and microalbuminuria.[122] Aging, comorbidities and the use of nephrotoxic antiretroviral drugs might lead to a higher risk for developing impaired renal function.[122,123,124] In addition, the use of renally excreted drugs is prevalent, therefore accurate estimation of renal function is an important component of personalized HIV care.[117,125]

Summary of the selected articles.

We selected two subanalysis including only 45 patients with HIV and mGFR < 60 ml/min/1.73m2. The imprecision reported was very wide, namely an IQR of 20 ml/min/1.73m2 in the study of Inker et al. and mean relative bias of 61% in the study of Gagneux et al..[126,127] This resulted in an accuracy, expressed as P30, of 67% and 22%, respectively.[126,127] The measurement of GFR with the gold standard iohexol was adequately performed in the study of Inker et al. and reasonably performed in the study of Gagneux et al.[126,127]

Interpretation and conclusion.

We were not able to draw conclusions about the validity of the MDRD formula in patients with HIV and moderate to severe renal impairment, because of the small number of patients. The wide imprecision reported in the small subanalysis does not support the validity of the MDRD formula.

Of note, in our previously published review about the validity of the MDRD formula in HIV-infected patients we suggested that the MDRD-4 formula is as valid in HIV-positive as in HIV-negative patients.[128] The results in this review do not confirm that hypothesis for patients with moderate to severe renal impairment.

Discussion

To our knowledge this is the first systematic review, which evaluates the validity of the MDRD formula in a range of specific patient populations with moderate to severe renal impairment in a more quantitative way. We focused on studies, which compared the MDRD formula with a gold standard and which provided statistical outcome information about the degree of deviation from the true GFR. Our selection criteria were thus more stringent than previously published reviews.[3,11,129]

This review showed that the validity of the MDRD formula has not yet been tested properly in patients with cardiovascular diseases and chronic respiratory diseases. In obese patients, patients with cancer and HIV the validity of the MDRD formula has been poorly tested. The number of studies and/or the number of patients included were very low and/or the measurement of GFR was not performed adequately. Therefore the validity of the MDRD formula in these patient populations remains unclear. For patients with diabetes mellitus and liver cirrhosis, hospitalized patients on the internal medicine and nephrology ward and elderly with moderate to severe renal impairment we concluded that the MDRD formula is not valid. A summary is given in Table 3.

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Table 3. Validity of the MDRD formula in different patient populations.

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Overall, we may conclude that the application of the MDRD formula in clinical practice is not supported by available research evidence for a range of specific patient populations. The application of the MDRD formula in drug dosing may become even more difficult with the knowledge that most of these chronic diseases are present in various combinations in the individual patient, especially in elderly.[130] The variability of the eGFR in daily practice might thus be larger.

At the time this research was conducted the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) formulas were developed. These formulas are based on serum creatinine value, cystatine value and a combination of both.[131,132] Overall, the CKD-EPI formula performs better than the MDRD-4 formula. However, the differences in the GFR range < 60 ml/min/1.73m2 are small and not clinically relevant.[17,133] In Australia, France and a few large laboratories in the United States, the eGFR is already calculated with the CKD-EPI formula.[134] Although the CKD-EPI formula may replace the MDRD formula, we still think that our review is of great interest. First, the limitations of the MDRD formula are due to the variable serum creatinine level. This variable still exists in the CKD-EPI formula. Second, this review shows the importance of validating a formula in specific patient populations. Especially, populations who are at risk of having impaired renal function.

This review is not without limitations. First, we excluded studies which did not fulfill our criteria concerning statistical analysis. A frequently used method to compare different formulas to estimate the GFR is the correlation coefficient, which has major limitations when used for this purpose.[117,121] The most informative method to assess diagnostic tests is the Bland Altman plot, as this identifies the direction and the magnitude of the bias.[67,135,136] Secondly, the gold standards used in the presented studies were diverse. The gold standard in the development of the MDRD formula was 125I-iothalamate.[15]. Use of other filtration markers may introduce a systematic bias, mostly an overestimation.[4,17,44] We did not consider this variable in the interpretation of the included studies. This would have been difficult because the measurement of the GFR was often not well described and/or not adequately performed. Another limitation is the lack of taking into account the differences between the MDRD en re-expressed MDRD formulas, in other words, between IDMS calibrated creatinine measurements and uncalibrated creatinine measurements. In addition, the use of an enzymatic method or the Jaffe method also introduces variable variations in serum creatinine levels.[2,137] We did not consider such additional variables in the interpretations of the selected studies. Instead, we choose to focus on the variables explained in the method section, which in our opinion have the greatest influence on the eGFR(MDRD). Finally, we did not discuss all different patient populations. Examples of patient characteristics which may also affect the validity of the MDRD formula, but which were not reviewed here, are pregnancy and ethnicity.[138,139,140,141]

Conclusion

In summary, the use of the MDRD formula in different specific patient populations for the fine-tuning of drug therapy management is not without limitations. There is no hard evidence that the MDRD formula is valid in patients with several chronic diseases combined with renal impairment. Clinical judgment remains necessary. Instead of searching for the ideal formula for estimating GFR, we should search for practical approaches to optimize the pharmacotherapy in patients with renal impairment.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WLE CK JFMW PAGMDS. Performed the experiments: WLE MW PAGMDS. Analyzed the data: WLE CK MW JFMW PAGMDS. Wrote the paper: WLE CK HJD MW JFMW PAGMDS.

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