Performance of future glomerular filtration rate equation by race in a large, racially diverse patient cohort undergoing nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma

Researchers examined the performance of the Palacios et al. (2021) post-nephrectomy future glomerular function rate (fGFR) equation in a diverse cohort using both the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology (CKD-EPI) 2009 equation with race, used in the creation of the formula, as well as the CKD-EPI 2021 equation without race. Nearly 1,500 patients were analyzed, with 22.9% being black. While the fGFR equation performed well in the large, diverse cohort, accuracy was relatively lower when using CKD-EPI 2021 compared to CKD-EPI 2009