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> Race isn’t a biological factor like age, sex or weight — it’s a social construct. So how did it make its way into calculations of kidney function? How would
by blueflow 3y ago
> Race isn’t a biological factor like age, sex or weight — it’s a social construct. So how did it make its way into calculations of kidney function?
How would cystic fibrosis pick its targets based on a social construct? Look up its very imbalanced prevalence.
So, if the prevalence of cystic fibrosis is indeed race-based, then we can't just assume that kidney function isn't.
- idontpost 3y ago[dead]
- Ekaros 3y agoTo me it seems reasonable that many diseases are more or less common based on race. But our concept and specially NA concept is not nearly fine-grained enough for it to work in many cases. Looking at Europe it seems there are differences even inside countries and groups that now are considered single ethnicity. So what would be needed is to track back to that level of history of population.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]