Redressing the Harms of Race-Based Kidney Function Estimation

Dinushika Mohottige; Tanjala S Purnell; L Ebony Boulware

doi:10.1001/jama.2023.2154

Redressing the Harms of Race-Based Kidney Function Estimation

JAMA. 2023 Mar 21;329(11):881-882. doi: 10.1001/jama.2023.2154.

Authors

Dinushika Mohottige^{1

2}, Tanjala S Purnell^{3

4}, L Ebony Boulware⁵

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Health Equity Research, Department of Population Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.
² Barbara T. Murphy Division of Nephrology, and Division of Data-Driven and Digital Medicine (D3M), Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.
³ Department of Epidemiology, Department of Health Policy and Management, and Department of Health Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁴ Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁵ Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

PMID: 36848168
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2023.2154

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This Viewpoint emphasizes the urgency of abolishing race-based medical practices and explains how they have unjustly contributed to racial inequities in clinical care and health outcomes.

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Humans
Kidney Function Tests* / methods
Kidney Function Tests* / standards
Kidney* / physiology
Racial Groups*
Socioeconomic Factors
Urinary Tract Physiological Phenomena*

Grants and funding

K01 HS024600/HS/AHRQ HHS/United States