Scrutiny Continues Over Use of Race in Estimated GFR in

The controversy over the inclusion of race as a factor in calculating estimated glomerular filtration rates reached more milestones.

"Scrutiny Continues Over Use of Race in Estimated GFR" published on Oct 2020 by American Society of Nephrology.

Retaining Race in Chronic Kidney Disease Diagnosis and Treatment

By doing so, the revised eGFRcr greatly exaggerates the purported racial disparity in CKD burden. Claims that the revised formulas identify ...

How will eliminating the race coefficient affect Black patients?

America's social justice movement led the nephrology community to reexamine the universal use of estimated GFR equations incorporating a race ...

Racial Demographics in Glomerular Filtration Rate Estimating ...

Eliminating use of the race-related factor clearly would introduce a systematic bias in a Black patient's eGFR relative to their mGFR, such that ...

Reassessing the Inclusion of Race in Diagnosing Kidney Diseases

This interim report details the process, initial assessment of evidence, and values defined regarding the use of race to estimate GFR.

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

The coefficient once used to raise the eGFR values of Black patients is now gone. “Without that race coefficient, we have a much better idea of ...

Reassess Inclusion of Race in Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate ...

The estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) calculation is a tool used by kidney transplant programs to measure a patient's kidney function.

Should Kidney Function Tests Include Race in eGFR Equations?

Race is currently one factor used in GFR equations. Nephrologist Nwamaka Eneanya wonders if its inclusion may contribute to systemic racism in medicine.

Task Force Advises Excluding Race as Factor in Estimates of Kidney ...

In recent years, use of an equation that incorporates race for estimating kidney function (the estimated glomerular filtration rate, eGFR) has ...

Flawed Racial Assumptions in eGFR Have Care Implications in CKD

The use of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) equations in assessing chronic kidney disease (CKD) for Black patients may lead to ...

Race, Genetic Ancestry, and Estimating Kidney Function in CKD

In particular, the use of indicators for Black race in equations that are widely used to estimate the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) from the ...

Scrutiny on Race-Based eGFR Correction Factors | myadlm.org

Most U.S. labs use the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) or Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) equations for ...

Impact of Race-Free Glomerular Filtration Rate Estimations on CKD ...

The 2021 CKD-EPI removes Black race as a factor in calculating the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR). We assessed its effect on CKD prevalence.

Removing the Racial Coefficient From Calculations of eGFR

“Our decision to remove this race coefficient in estimating GFR reflects both an analysis of published data and Mount Sinai's commitment to equity in the care ...

Kidney health: New approach may improve outcomes for Black people

“New eGFR equations that incorporate creatinine and cystatin C but omit race are more accurate and led to smaller differences between Black ...

Should Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate Be Adjusted for Race?

Data used in the development of the MDRD and. CKD-EPI equations showed that measured GFR for a given level of serum creatinine was higher in Blacks than non- ...

Field Correction | Harvard Medicine Magazine

Why the race correction? It stems from a statistical analysis that found that Black individuals had greater measured kidney function at the same creatinine ...

OHSU ends practice of factoring a patient's race into diagnosis ...

The new protocol excludes race as a variable. Instead, the CKD-EPI eGFR results are based on serum creatinine, age and sex, and is normalized to ...

Measures of kidney function delay Black patients' treatment

But the two predominant equations used in the United States to calculate eGFR have come under increased scrutiny because they incorporate race- ...