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There seems to be something missing here: > Race isn’t a biological factor like age, sex or weight — it’s a social construct. > In 1999, an equation used to c
by Chris2048 3y ago
There seems to be something missing here:
> Race isn’t a biological factor like age, sex or weight — it’s a social construct.
> In 1999, an equation used to calculate eGFR was modified to adjust Black people’s results compared to everyone else’s, based on some studies with small numbers of Black patients and a long-ago false theory about differences in creatinine levels.
> Black Americans are over three times more likely than white people to experience kidney failure.
so, is some racial metric reasonable or not? why are black Americans more likely to experience kidney failure - social issue, or biological?
was the study with a small number of participants repeated with a larger number?!
- locopati 3y agomaybe there are other systemic issues that result in underdiagnosis or poor quality care
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- ahazred8ta 3y agoKidney failure is caused/aggravated by diabetes, hypertension/high blood pressure, and stress. All of these have a major environmental / social factor.
- EA-3167 3y agoHigher rate of obesity as well, which mostly explains the diabetes and hypertension. Obesity and diabetes are certainly environmental/social as you put it, but hypertension in people of African descent probably also has a genetic component in addition to the rest. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6429313/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6429313/