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  Mardi 11 Avril 2023
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Lifelabs used to advise us to multiply the eGFR value reported by a factor of 1.15 in black patients. They recently stopped including this message. Is there an error?
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Great question,

But rather than summarizing the answer myself, there is a very good article explaining the issue here:

https://www.kidney.org/atoz/content/race-and-egfr-what-controversy

Dr. Jordan Weinstein
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