This study found that the recent change to remove race from the calculation of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) may incorrectly label potential donors who are Black as having chronic kidney ...

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 ...

A systematic review found that alternative approaches to calculating estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) were worth looking into to properly account for diversity in populations. A review ...

A racially biased formula kept thousands of Black Americans off the kidney transplant waitlist list. Channel 9 first told you about this last month and showed you how hospitals had to dig through ...

Black Americans continue to make up a disproportionate number of the 37 million U.S. adults with kidney disease. Now, a decades-old formula that determines kidney function based on race is the subject ...

Black kidney transplant patients are now receiving medical reparations for flaw in the eGFR formula that's used to estimate kidney function. There's a special kind of patience someone waiting for a ...