-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.
The German states were first unified as a (federal) nation-state in 1871. The new Germany was in many respects an expanded Prussia ... (Austria had been expelled from the German Confederation by Prussia in 1866). However, Germany had existed as a cultural nation long before 1871. 3 people found this useful.