The race-based adjustment for kidney functioning that's harming Black Americans.
Jordan Crowley was born with only one shrunken kidney to clean his blood. As he gets older, his one kidney gets sicker. Jordan is now 18, loves dogs, and is more interested in telling me about his college classes than the fact that he was recently hospitalized for seizures, a complication of his illness. He’ll need a kidney transplant soon. He would be closer to getting that kidney transplant, if only he were categorized as white. A patient’s level of kidney disease is judged by an estimation of glomerular filtration rate, or eGFR, which normally sits between 90 and 120 in a patient with ...
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