Reconsidering the Consequences of Using Race to Estimate Kidney Function

JAMA. 2019 Jul 9;322(2):113-114. doi: 10.1001/jama.2019.5774.

Authors

Nwamaka Denise Eneanya^{1

2}, Wei Yang³, Peter Philip Reese^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension Division, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
² Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
³ Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

PMID: 31169890
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2019.5774

No abstract available

MeSH terms

African Americans*
Continental Population Groups
Glomerular Filtration Rate*
Humans
Kidney / physiology
Kidney Diseases / diagnosis
Kidney Diseases / ethnology*
Kidney Diseases / surgery
Kidney Transplantation
United States