Kansas City Kidney Disease Is Racist

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Until recently, one contributor to that inequity was baked into standard medical practice. Doctors used a different metric for Black people’s kidney function than for white people’s.

“With the same level of creatinine (a key measure of kidney function), white people were classified as having more advanced kidney disease than Black people,” said Dr. Sylvia E. Rosas, a nephrologist in Boston who is also president of the National Kidney Foundation. “It affected Black people because they were referred later for transplant.”

That delayed transplants, extended the sometimes-brutal time of relying on dialysis and increased their chance of dying while waiting for a new kidney.

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Kansas City physicians ditch rules treating white people's kidney disease more seriously

Clinicians had long shorted Black patients with kidney disease by measuring organ performance differently based on race. Now Kansas City physicians disregard race when determining when to put patients on dialysis or a transplant waiting list.