Drs. Ashira Blazer and Denise Kimbrough discuss the recent removal of the African American/Black race coefficient from the Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI) by the Organ Procurement and ...

For the past few years, experts have criticized — and defended — the use of race in calculating an important number for people with kidney disease: the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR). As ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The Organ Procurement and Transplant Network Board of Directors has unanimously voted to remove the race ...

The study covered in this summary was published in medRxiv.org as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. The authors evaluated the impact of removing race from the estimated glomerular ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Calculations for eGFR were closer to measured GFR without adjustments for race, which suggested adjusting eGFR ...

To diagnose kidney disease, physicians calculate estimated glomerular filtration rate, or eGFR, as a measure of kidney function. Those calculations factor in a patient’s age, sex and levels of serum ...

Because race is a social construct, not a physical characteristic, the race coefficient may not be needed to calculate eGFR. Removing the race coefficient could increase the number of black ...

Nearly a million more Black adults in the United States would have stage 3 chronic kidney disease if the race coefficient were removed from the CKD-EPI equation used to estimate glomerular filtration ...

As the federally designated entity responsible for maintaining the transplantation waitlist, the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) establishes and maintains transplant policies ...

At 6 a.m. three days a week, Gloria James spends the first four hours of her day at the Northwest Detroit Dialysis Lahser Satellite clinic. The 70-year-old Detroit native gets two needles — both ...