In 2002, the National Kidney Foundation published treatment guidelines that identified five stages of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) based on declining GFR measurements. The guidelines recommend different actions based on the stage of kidney disease.
CSV (Comma Separated Value) was a file format devised to store tabular data. It uses commas to separate each entry in a row and the newline symbol to go to the next row. Excel is a more recent spreadsheet application from Microsoft and it saves the data with its own file format.
What is CSV? The comma-separated values (CSV) format is a widely used text file format often used to exchange data between applications. It contains multiple records (one per line), and each field is delimited by a comma. Wikipedia has a good explanation of the CSV format and its history.