A commentary by Calvin Meaney urges discontinuation of outdated tests that are imprecise or disadvantage Black patients.
The estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) is a blood test to assess kidney function. The formula for calculating eGFR takes the patient’s body size, age, and sex into account to predict how well ...
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Effort to fix harms of race-based kidney testing helps Black transplant candidates
Thousands have been given credit on the waiting list for time lost ...
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is recognized as a major global health challenge and on the rise nationwide, with approximately ...
Your kidneys do this automatically by passing your blood through millions of filtering units called nephrons, which have two ...
Diabetes is one of the leading causes of kidney disease worldwide, and India carries a particularly high burden of both conditions. What makes diabetic kidney disease especially concerning is that it ...
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