Race and kidney function

NIH-supported study suggests alternative to race-based kidney ...

Studies have shown that Black Americans, on average, can have higher levels of serum creatinine in their blood, independent of kidney function.

Race, Ethnicity, & Kidney Disease | National Kidney Foundation

Black or African Americans are more than 3 times as likely and Hispanics or Latinos are 1.3 times more likely to have kidney failure compared to White Americans ...

Testing kidney function with race-free values offers a better health ...

Patients and providers now see just a single eGFR number that is calculated based on age, gender and creatinine levels for everyone. A separate ...

Filtering Bias Out of Kidney Testing - Penn Medicine

Clinicians have been performing this “race correction” for more than 20 years, so Black patients are routinely assigned higher kidney function than those of ...

Race and kidney function: The facts and fix amidst the fuss ...

Black persons had greater creatinine levels than White persons with the same measured GFR, age, and sex, affirming the results of Jones et al6.

Removing Race from Estimates of Kidney Function

Estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) is one of the primary diagnostic methods for detecting and managing kidney diseases. The eGFR ...

The Case Against Race-Based GFR - PMC

The coincidental findings led researchers to conclude that Black race was an independent predictor of GFR, leading to the addition of the race coefficient to ...

Race/ethnicity – Kidney disease risk factors

If you are African American, Hispanic, Native American or Asian American, you are at increased risk for kidney disease. Ask your doctor how ...

Health inequities and the inappropriate use of race in nephrology

Specifically, the risk of developing kidney failure that requires dialysis or kidney transplantation is 2.6-fold higher in Black individuals and ...

How will eliminating the race coefficient affect Black patients?

About 37 million Americans—more than 1 in 7—have chronic kidney disease, and a disproportionate number are Black. ... In fact, Black Americans are ...

Abandoning a Race-biased Tool for Kidney Diagnosis

In the United States, African Americans are four times more likely to develop kidney failure than white patients, yet this racially biased eGFR ...

Race, Genetic Ancestry, and Estimating Kidney Function in CKD

Adults who identify as Black have higher serum creatinine levels on average, independent of age, sex, and GFR, than those who do not identify as ...

Inside the bruising battle to purge race from a kidney disease ...

The eGFR equation's proponents, according to some who joined the meeting, described it as the evidence-based way to assess kidney function and ...

Redressing the Harms of Race-Based Kidney Function Estimation

Redressing the Harms of Race-Based Kidney Function Estimation ... Race-based medicine in the US, which has unjustly contributed to racial ...

Kidney Disease, Race, and GFR Estimation

Current guidelines from Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) (Box 1) recommend eGFR cr as the initial step in GFR evaluation (25). ... Serum ...

Study supports removing race from estimate of kidney function

Study supports removing race from estimate of kidney function. An in-depth analysis by Vanderbilt investigators of published research studies ...

Johns Hopkins Health System Adopts Race-Free Kidney Function ...

The transition to a new standard of evaluating kidney function will specifically eliminate whether a patient is “African American or non-African ...

Race and eGFR: Addressing Health Disparities in Chronic Kidney ...

African Americans are at high risk for chronic kidney disease (CKD). The US Renal Data System (USRDS) 2018 Annual Report showed that black ...

Understanding race-neutral eGFR calculations - OPTN - HRSA

For example, studies suggest that using the variable in the CKD-EPI formula has the potential to overestimate Black patients' kidney function by as much as 16 ...

Rethinking Race, Kidney Function | Harvard Medical School

This led scientists to reason that creatinine levels may be naturally higher in Black individuals without compromised kidney function. To avoid ...