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Race, Genetic Ancestry, and Estimating Kidney Function in CKD

2021; Massachusetts Medical Society; Volume: 385; Issue: 19 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1056/nejmoa2103753

1533-4406

Chi‐yuan Hsu, Wei Yang, Rishi Parikh, Amanda H. Anderson, Teresa K. Chen, Debbie L. Cohen, Jiang He, Madhumita Jena Mohanty, James P. Lash, Katherine T. Mills, Anthony N. Muiru, Afshin Parsa, Milda R. Saunders, Tariq Shafi, Raymond R. Townsend, Sushrut S. Waikar, Jianqiao Wang, Myles Wolf, Thida C. Tan, Harold I. Feldman, Alan S. Go,

Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment

The inclusion of race in equations to estimate the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) has become controversial. Alternative equations that can be used to achieve similar accuracy without the use of race are needed.