The Glomerular Filtration Rate Equation: Time to Recalculate? —The eGFR formula includes a race coefficient, which was intended to account for the higher creatinine levels in black individuals.

If a new race-free equation for assessing chronic kidney disease is widely adopted in the US, this will potentially impact medication dosing, insurance coverage, and kidney transplant eligibility.

The CKD-EPI equation that followed a decade later kept the race index in the eGFR calculation. There is now little doubt that both the MDRD and CKD-EPI equations have contributed to structural ...

To diagnose kidney disease, physicians calculate estimated glomerular filtration rate, or eGFR, as a measure of kidney function.