The study covered in this summary was published in medRxiv.org as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed.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 ...

To assess kidney function and track chronic kidney disease, health care providers commonly use a measure called eGFR (estimated glomerular filtration rate). But the two predominant equations used in ...

The leaders of two major US nephrology groups have issued their most forceful call to date for ending use of the race coefficient modifier when calculating estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Older adults may have hyperfiltration with normal glomerular filtration rate calculation. GFR calculation may be ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Discrepancies between eGFR and measured GFR suggest that measured GFR may be the superior calculator for ...

A race-specific algorithm designed to assess kidney function for individuals awaiting transplants jeopardized critical treatment for some Black Americans. An exclusive report by the Associated Press ...

In November, Jesse Brown VA Medical Center in Chicago became one of the first VA Medical Centers to no longer use an outdated calculator that included race to measure kidney health. This is the first ...

The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) and the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Task Force on Reassessing the Inclusion of Race in Diagnosing Kidney Diseases has released its final report, which ...