Overcoming Vestiges of Structural Racism in Kidney Care and Renal Nutrition and Revisiting Cockcroft-Gault Creatinine Clearance and Its Weight Index
Is there structural racism in kidney health and, by extension, in the field of renal nutrition? Race is a social construct and often an interpretation of how one looks. It can be self-declared to represent one's heritage or preferred heritage in case of mixed background.1 Two decades ago, with data from the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) multicenter study, an equation was developed to estimate glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) that used Black race.2 The value is reported in units of mL/minute/1.73 m2 body surface area (BSA).