Reconsidering the Consequences of Using Race to Estimate Kidney Function
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- 9 July 2019
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 322 (2), 113-114
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2019.5774
Abstract
This Viewpoint questions whether the use of race as a variable in the CKD-EPI equation to estimate glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) puts some black patients atKeywords
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