Biologic sex and the estimation of GFR in pediatric and young adult patients with acute kidney injury.

The article comments on a paper by Chloe Braun and colleagues on the estimation of glomerular filtration rate in pediatric and adult patients with acute kidney injury (AKI). Topics mentioned include the proposed formula for estimating baseline creatinine by age and sex, the link between serum creatinine and muscle mass, and the use of electronic health records with rule-based algorithms for immediate detection of AKI.