GMO Dialogues | Interview with Dr. Nwamaka Eneanya

Current equations that use serum creatinine incorporate age, sex, and race to estimate measured Glomerular Filtration Rate. Inclusion of race in these equations and other medical algorithms is facing increased scrutiny because race is a social, not a biologic construct. Its inclusion may contribute to systemic racism in medicine.
Nephrologist Amaka Eneanya, assistant professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania’s, Perelman School of Medicine, is an advocate for eliminating race from the formula, and the author of a wave-making paper that helped propel the issue to a national stage.