In The Sum of Us, Heather McGhee provides a poignant argument of the harms of viewing
racial 11 disparity corrections as a “zero-sum game”.(1) The conversation, actually …

Background: In the US, Black Americans with CKD have faster kidney function decline than
White peers. We examined whether this faster decline was also observed when the race …

In 2020, the University of Washington (UW) removed the race coefficient (Black vs non-Black
race) from the 2009 Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (2009 CKD-EPIno …

Background The National Kidney Foundation and American Society of Nephrology Task
Force on Reassessing the Inclusion of Race in Diagnosing Kidney Disease recently …

Racial and social unrest witnessed during 2020 ignited a national conversation about the
appropriateness of the use of race in health care algorithms and in the estimation of kidney …

Importance At a given estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), individuals who are Black
have higher rates of mortality and kidney failure with replacement therapy (KFRT) compared …

CJASN 16: 1562–1564, 2021. doi: https://doi. org/10.2215/CJN. 04430321 eGFR from
serum creatinine–based equations informs diagnosis and staging of CKD. The guideline …

For almost two decades, equations that use serum creatinine, age, sex, and race to eGFR
have included “race” as Black or non-Black. Given considerable evidence of disparities in …

Introduction We investigated the implications of implementing race-free Chronic Kidney
Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) 2021 equation among real-world patients …

In September 2021, the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) and American Society of
Nephrology (ASN) Task Force on Reassessing the Inclusion of Race in Diagnosing Kidney …