Abstract
In recent years, there has been growing concern about the use of race, a social construct, in medical decision making.1–4 Calls for change reached a new volume in 2020, sparked by widespread protests against systemic racism in the United States. Recognizing significant racial disparities in kidney health in the United States and worldwide, questions have been raised about the inclusion of race in equations to estimate creatinine-based GFR (eGFRCr).2
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