Retaining Race in Chronic Kidney Disease Diagnosis and Treatment

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作者
Williams, Paul [1 ]
机构
[1] Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Life Sci, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
关键词
egfr creatinine; end stage renal disease (esrd); race-based differences; estimated glomerular filtration rate (egfr); chronic kidney disease (ckd); GLOMERULAR-FILTRATION-RATE; SERUM CREATININE CONCENTRATIONS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; GENETIC AFRICAN ANCESTRY; MUSCLE MASS; SKELETAL-MUSCLE; BLACK PATIENTS; YOUNG-ADULTS; SECONDARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; URINARY CREATININE;
D O I
10.7759/cureus.45054
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R5 [内科学];
学科分类号
1002 ; 100201 ;
摘要
The best overall measure of kidney function is glomerular filtration rate (GFR) as commonly estimated from serum creatinine concentrations (eGFRcr) using formulas that correct for the higher average creatinine concentrations in Blacks. After two decades of use, these formulas have come under scrutiny for estimating GFR differently in Blacks and non-Blacks. Discussions of whether to include race (Black vs. non-Black) in the calculation of eGFRcr fail to acknowledge that the original race-based eGFRcr provided the same CKD treatment recommendations for Blacks and non-Blacks based on directly (exogenously) measured GFR. Nevertheless, the National Kidney Foundation and the American Society of Nephrology Task Force on Reassessing the Inclusion of Race in Diagnosing Kidney Disease removed race in CKD treatment guidelines and pushed for the immediate adoption of a race-free eGFRcr formula by physicians and clinical laboratories. This formula is projected to negate CKD in 5.51 million White and other non-Black adults and reclassify CKD to less severe stages in another 4.59 million non-Blacks, in order to expand treatment eligibility to 434,000 Blacks not previously diagnosed and to 584,000 Blacks previously diagnosed with less severe CKD. This review examines: 1) the validity of the arguments for removing the original race correction, and 2) the performance of the proposed replacement formula. Excluding race in the derivation of eGFRcr changed the statistical bias from +3.7 to-3.6 ml/min/1.73m2 in Blacks and from +0.5 to +3.9 in non-Blacks, i.e., promoting CKD diagnosis in Blacks at the cost of restricting diagnosis in non-Blacks. By doing so, the revised eGFRcr greatly exaggerates the purported racial disparity in CKD burden. Claims that the revised formulas identify heretofore undiagnosed CKD in Blacks are not supported when studies that used kidney failure replacement therapy and mortality are interpreted as proxies for baseline CKD. Alternatively, a race stratified eGFRcr (i.e., separate equations for Blacks and non-Blacks) would provide the least biased eGFRcr for both Blacks and non-Blacks and the best medical treatment for all patients.
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