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Vanessa Grubbs
March 9, 2021
race and medicine, kidney transplant

the end of Black kidney function

Vanessa Grubbs
March 9, 2021
race and medicine, kidney transplant

Did you know that for 20 years, doctors have been estimating how fast the kidneys are filtering the blood (the glomerular filtration rate or GFR) using an equation that includes a “Black race correction”?

Tagged: kidney function estimating equations, World Kidney Day, nephrologist, kidney, Vanessa Grubbs

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