Landmark articles suggest eliminating race in the estimation of kidney function.

Editorial: Time to Eliminate Health Care Disparities in the Estimation of Kidney Function – New England Journal of Medicine

Study 1: New Creatinine- and Cystatin C–Based Equations to Estimate GFR without Race – New England Journal of Medicine

Study 2: Race, Genetic Ancestry, and Estimating Kidney Function in CKD – New England Journal of Medicine

Commentaries:

NIH-supported study suggests alternative to race-based kidney function calculations – NIH News Releases

Remove Race From Equation Used to Assess Kidney Function, Researchers Say – AJMC

Researchers identify potential approach to eliminate race from equations to estimate kidney function – News Medical

Commentary on Twitter

Honored to contribute to the NEW 2021 CKD-EPI #race-free #eGFR equation in our latest research published in @NEJM today. I learned a ton about equations. Importantly, the main lesson is that #race should NOT be incorporated into #biological tools. https://t.co/RvfWWwGOox pic.twitter.com/Xub23AUXht

— Amaka Eneanya, MD, MPH (@AmakaEMD) September 23, 2021