{"id":5474,"date":"2022-09-21T08:03:54","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T15:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=5474"},"modified":"2022-09-21T08:04:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T15:04:01","slug":"for-black-patients-nixing-race-adjustment-may-improve-kidney-transplant-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2022\/09\/21\/for-black-patients-nixing-race-adjustment-may-improve-kidney-transplant-odds\/","title":{"rendered":"For Black Patients, Nixing \u2018Race Adjustment\u2019 May Improve Kidney Transplant Odds"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"5474\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p>UCSF-Hennepin County Study Shows Race-Free Creatinine Formula Helps Equalize Access<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using equations to calculate kidney function that do not include race adjustments would result in Black patients gaining time on the transplant waitlist before their kidneys fail that matched similar durations for white patients, according to a new study led by UC San Francisco and Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In their study, publishing in the journal\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2215\/CJN.04850422\">CJASN<\/a><\/em>\u00a0on Sept. 19, 2022, the researchers compared the length of time from waitlist eligibility to kidney failure for Black and white patients. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucsf.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/423741\/black-patients-nixing-race-adjustment-may-improve-kidney-transplant-odds\">Read more <\/a>from the University of California San Francisco.<\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"5474\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading UCSF-Hennepin County Study Shows Race-Free Creatinine Formula Helps Equalize Access Using equations to calculate kidney function that do not include race adjustments would result in Black patients gaining time &hellip; 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