 Bariatric surgery alters the production of endogenous markers and the extracellular volume VEC with 2 important consequences on the assessment of GFR: the formula to estimate GFR is not possible to compare renal function before and after surgery because of the variation in production of endogenous glomerular filtration markers in the same subject; decreasing VEC predicted decreased GFR after surgery, since these parameters are in part proportional to each other. 