By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated April 4, 2024
A racially biased test that prevented thousands of Black people from receiving kidney transplants is finally changing.
For the past twenty years the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) clinical lab test used to be the gold standard in evaluating “how efficiently a person’s kidneys remove creatinine, a waste product they filter out of blood. The eGFR equation reports a score based on measured creatinine levels
