Daily News | For years, Black people have waited longer for kidney transplants because of their race. A new rule aims to fix that.
Katherine Anderson’s kidneys have been going downhill for years, increasingly unable to filter her body’s waste products from her blood. She is often exhausted and has no appetite, losing 20 pounds in the last year alone from her slender, 5-foot-5½ frame.
Since then, the transplant staff has done it for 70 more, coming in on weekends to pore over old lab results and rerun the numbers. The result: On average, the 172 patients have qualified for an additional two years of credit for waitlist time, transplant surgeon Jaime Glorioso said. Seven already have undergone transplants.For Anderson, the recalculation meant she should have gone on the waitlist in December 2017.
To Martin, who is Black, that sounded like bad science from an earlier, racist era — when Black people were thought to be poor swimmers because of denser bones, or were judged to be “inferior” due to measurements of the skull. He now thinks the old formula that he helped develop, though more accurate than earlier formulas, was a mistake. In an interview, he cited some of the same reasons as“It turned out that the extra accuracy that we were able to obtain from including race in the prediction was not worth the tremendous objection to using a social construct,” he said., an adjunct faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine.
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