A biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney transplant. It's finally changing

A biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney transplant. It's finally changing

Thousands of Black kidney transplant candidates so far have been given credit for lost waiting time, moving them up the priority list for their transplant.

A biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney transplant. It's finally changing

Thousands of Black kidney transplant candidates so far have been given credit for lost waiting time, moving them up the priority list for their transplant.

A biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney transplant. It's finally changing

Thousands of Black kidney transplant candidates so far have been given credit for lost waiting time, moving them up the priority list for their transplant.

A biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney transplant. It's finally changing

Thousands of Black kidney transplant candidates so far have been given credit for lost waiting time, moving them up the priority list for their transplant.

Biased test kept thousands of Black people from kidney transplant

Black Americans are over three times more likely than white people to experience kidney failure. Of the roughly 89,000 people currently on the waiting list for a new kidney, about 30% are Black.

A biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney transplant. It's finally changing

Race isn't a biological factor like age, sex or weight - it's a social construct. So how did it make its way into calculations of kidney function?