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

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

The use of a race coefficient in the equation to test kidney function traces back to an old study that had serious limitations.

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

In a study supported by the National Institutes of Health, researchers propose changing a key measure in kidney disease diagnosis and ...

Race-free approach to estimating kidney function

In a letter to health care professionals, the two organizations wrote that they “now urge all laboratories and healthcare systems nationwide to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eliminating Race from Kidney Function Assessments - Testing.com

The task force found that use of race in the equation led to racial disparities in kidney care and other health care decisions that take GFR ...

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 ...

New Kidney Function Test Takes Race Out of the Equation - UCSF

These equations have been criticized for potentially perpetuating racial health disparities. The findings, reported Sept. 23 in the New England ...

NKF and ASN Release New Way to Diagnose Kidney Diseases

In the report, the NKF-ASN Task Force recommends the adoption of the new eGFR 2021 CKD EPI creatinine equation that estimates kidney function ...

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 ...

A better way to measure kidney function | Harvard Medical School

Recently, a task force convened by the National Kidney Foundation and the American Society of Nephrology recommended a new race-free clinical ...

Labcorp Implements Race-Free Equation for Kidney Disease Test

The new equation removes the race-based coefficient found in prior equations and is recommended by the National Kidney Foundation and the American Society of ...

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

The use of eGFR is an important clinical tool in the diagnosis of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Its primary role is to facilitate a simpler ...

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

A few years ago, the National Kidney Foundation and American Society of Nephrology prodded laboratories to switch to race-free equations in ...

Understanding race-neutral eGFR calculations - OPTN - HRSA

Effective Jan. 5, 2023, kidney programs are required to assess their waiting lists and correct waiting times for any Black kidney candidates disadvantaged.

Health inequities and the inappropriate use of race in nephrology

Notably, 70% of Black individuals in the CKD-EPI study were participants from the African American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension ( ...

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 ...

Push to remove racist bias from kidney testing gains new ground

But the race of a patient can only be bucketed into two groups: Black, or not Black. That's based on a flawed assumption that dates back to the ...

African Americans and eGFR: How to calculate - MedicalNewsToday

Doctors use estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) scores to measure kidney function. Learn more about eGFR scores for African American ...