Test may help reduce racial disparities in kidney disease

Researchers found that measuring levels of a protein called cystatin C can accurately estimate kidney function without needing to take race ...

News: A 'Race-Free' Approach to Diagnosing... (The New York Times)

Test may help reduce racial disparities in kidney disease ... Researchers found that measuring levels of a protein called cystatin C can accurately estimate ...

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 ...

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 ...

New Research May Help Curb Racial Disparities in Kidney Disease ...

Research shows that removing a race modifier from a formula used to diagnose kidney disease may lead to equitable care for Black patients.

Removing Race Adjustment in Chronic Kidney Disease Care | FSI

The inclusion of race adjustment in the eGFR equation may have contributed to disparities in CKD and kidney failure outcomes through delays ...

Could a Community-Based Approach to Genetic Testing Help ...

African Americans have a higher risk of kidney disease development and progression. While race is a social construct, and this disparity is ...

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

Racial profiling and killings of Black persons in 2020 became a lightning rod to combat structural racism in health care. The use of race in ...

Replacing the faulty formula that led to inequity in kidney care

Many labs moved away from race-adjusted kidney function, and most plan to do so. For one AMA member, the racist measure left an indelible ...

Time to Eliminate Health Care Disparities in the Estimation of Kidney ...

That observation led to incorporation of a race coefficient in estimating equations that would inflate GFR estimates for Black patients in order ...

Kidney failure experts recommend new tool that eliminates race as a ...

There have been concerns raised that the creatinine-based eGFR equations that include race may over-estimate true kidney function in Black ...

A biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney ...

That race-based equation could delay diagnosis of organ failure and evaluation for a transplant, exacerbating other disparities that already ...

Removing Race from Diagnosing Kidney Disease and Addressing ...

Diagnosing kidney disease relies on a test called an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR). More than twenty years ago, race was added into the ...

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

Starting on May 4, 2021, UC Davis Health will calculate estimated glomerular filtration (eGFR) rate without a parameter for race.

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

... and even denied transplants because of a race-adjusted test ... would be shifted to a lower level of kidney function that justified more care.

Targeting the racial disparity in kidney disease

Some people of West African descent face a higher risk of renal failure. New drugs based on gene research may help right the ship — if they can ...

Rethinking Race, Kidney Function | Harvard Medical School

2 in JAMA, suggest that removing race from kidney function tests might have both advantages and disadvantages for Black people with kidney ...

What's A 'Race-Free' Approach to Diagnosing Kidney Disease?

The adjustment may make Black patients seem less ill than they really are, according to many experts. Instead, doctors should rely on a race- ...

Removing Race from Estimates of Kidney Function

We must move beyond this if we are to address the racism and racial disparities that impede the care of people with kidney disease.” ASN and NKF ...

Chronic Kidney Disease and Racial Disparities in Healthcare

Using race as a factor when calculating eGFR created barriers to timely medical care for Black patients. The multiplier for race can make Black patients seem to ...