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63. What Medicine Gets Wrong About Race

Freakonomics, M.D.

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How Do You Diagnose Chronic Kidney Disease?

In the United States, we know that those populations skew heavily towards racial and ethnic minority. So black patients, Hispanic or Latinx patients, Native American patients all have high risk of developing kidney disease because they also have a large burden of diabetes and high blood pressure. How do you diagnose kidney disease and then monitor the function of the kidneys? The gold standard way is actually quite intense.

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