Vanessa Grubbs March 9, 2021 race and medicine, kidney transplant the end of Black kidney function Vanessa Grubbs March 9, 2021 race and medicine, kidney transplant Did you know that for 20 years, doctors have been estimating how fast the kidneys are filtering the blood (the glomerular filtration rate or GFR) using an equation that includes a “Black race correction”?