Race Adjustment in Pulmonary Function Tests
In our first issue, we discussed the current reevaluation of race adjustments to glomerular filtration rate (GFR). Such racial adjustments are not unique to nephrology and today we are including references discussing pulmonary function tests. The original article appears in Chest but there is a nice summary in Medscape. The authors of the Chest article […]
Worse Survival in AML for Black Patients
A study published presented to the American Society of Hematology and published in Cancer Discovery described an increasing survival gap between white and black patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. The authors controlled for multiple variables and still found a survival difference, suggesting genetic differences a play. Genetic analysis did, in fact, uncover differences in genetic […]