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ArticleClinical kidney journal2024

Consistency of metabolite associations with measured glomerular filtration rate in children and adults.

Taibo Li, Morgan E Grams, Lesley A Inker, Jingsha Chen, Eugene P Rhee, Bradley A Warady, Andrew S Levey, Michelle R Denburg, Susan L Furth, Vasan S Ramachandran and 2 more

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Article in Clinical kidney journal, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Microbes and GFR in Health and CKD in Mice.Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN · 2026
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  3. Microbiota and kidney disease: the road ahead.Nature reviews. Nephrology · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Taibo LiMD-PhD Program, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6624-9293
Morgan E GramsWelch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Lesley A InkerDivision of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
Jingsha ChenWelch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Eugene P RheeNephrology Division and Endocrine Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Bradley A WaradyDepartment of Pediatrics, Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO, USA.
Andrew S LeveyDivision of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
Michelle R DenburgCenter for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Susan L FurthDepartment of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Vasan S RamachandranDepartment of Population Health Sciences, University of Texas School of Public Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA.
Paul L KimmelNational Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Josef CoreshWelch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Funding

Multi-Omics and Chronic Kidney Disease: Correlation with HistologyR01DK108803 · NIDDK · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI Morgan Erika Grams, EUGENE P. RHEE · 2016 to 2026
$6.4M
Integrative Omics, Chronic Kidney Disease, and Adverse Outcomes in Older AdultsR01DK124399 · NIDDK · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI JOSEF CORESH, Morgan Erika Grams · 2020 to 2026
$3.6M
Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease: Patient-Oriented Research and Mentoring - RenewalK24HL155861 · NHLBI · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI Morgan Erika Grams · 2021 to 2026
$732k
NHLBI NIH HHS K24 HL155861NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK108803NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK124399
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: There is interest in identifying novel filtration markers that lead to more accurate GFR estimates than current markers (creatinine and cystatin C) and are more consistent across demographic groups. We hypothesize that large-scale metabolomics can identify serum metabolites that are strongly influenced by glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and are more consistent across demographic variables than creatinine, which would be promising filtration markers for future investigation. Methods: We evaluated the consistency of associations between measured GFR (mGFR) and 887 common, known metabolites quantified by an untargeted chromatography- and spectroscopy-based metabolomics platform (Metabolon) performed on frozen blood samples from 580 participants in Chronic Kidney Disease in Children (CKiD), 674 participants in Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) Study and 962 participants in African American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension (AASK). We evaluated metabolite-mGFR correlation association with metabolite class, molecular weight, assay platform and measurement coefficient of variation (CV). Among metabolites with strong negative correlations with mGFR ( Results: A total of 561 metabolites (63%) were negatively correlated with mGFR. Correlations with mGFR were highly consistent across study, sex, race and BMI categories (correlation of metabolite-mGFR correlations between 0.88 and 0.95). Amino acids, carbohydrates and nucleotides were more often negatively correlated with mGFR compared with lipids, but there was no association with metabolite molecular weight, liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry platform and measurement CV. Among 114 metabolites with strong negative associations with mGFR ( Conclusions: The majority of metabolite-mGFR correlations were negative and consistent across sex, race, BMI and study. Metabolites with consistent strong negative correlations with mGFR and non-association with demographic variables may represent candidate markers to improve estimation of GFR.

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filtration markersGFRkidney functionmetabolitesmetabolomics

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PMID38859934
PMCPMC11163224

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