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 ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . One-third of Black candidates had a wait-time modification under new policy of race-neutral eGFR assessment.
The new equation appears more accurate than the race-free 2021 CKD-EPI equation, according to investigators. The European Kidney Function Consortium (EKFC) has developed a new race- and sex-free ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The transplant community had been seeking an eGFR equation specific for evaluating transplant recipients. A new ...
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 ...
The race-free, creatinine-based equation for calculating estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), introduced in 2021 and gaining traction as the default tool for assessing kidney function in ...