-The MDRD equation does not require weight or height variables. From a serum creatinine measurement, it generates a GFR result normalized to a standard body surface area (1.73 m[2]) using sex, age, and race. Unlike the Cockcroft-Gault equation, height and weight, which are often not available in the laboratory information system, are not required.
Franco-Prussian War and Unification. With Austria neutralized, the final obstacle to Prussia's unification of Germany was France. France still controlled territory on the border of the new, Prussian-dominated German Confederation, which Prussia considered German.
However, West Germany was also heavily influenced by the Americans, British, and French. Germany re-unified in 1990. Germany wasn't always a unified country before World War II either. Germany didn't become Germany until Chancellor Otto von Bismarck unified the German states under the King of Prussia.