Overcoming Vestiges of Structural Racism in Kidney Care and Renal Nutrition and Revisiting Cockcroft-Gault Creatinine Clearance and Its Weight Index

Practicing health equity in involuntary discharges to overcome disparities in dialysis and kidney patient care

“…Given the high burden of IVDs in the ESRD program along with their potential adverse impact on quality and safety of dialysis care, addressing this ongoing issue and its related racial and other disparities is of paramount importance. Structural racism in medicine and public health is undoubtedly extended to kidney care [39 ▪ ]. There is a critical urgency to examine data related to IVDs and their trends accurately and commensurately across different communities and regions of the United States to better understand the patterns and impact on dialysis patient care.…”

Functional Nutrition, Naturopathic Nutrition, and Integrative and Holistic Renal Nutrition in Kidney Health and Value-Based Kidney Care Models

“…42 Applied functional nutrition benefits from effective MNT strategies 15,43 including renal telenutrition as an important goal under the value-based kidney care models 24 for secondary and tertiary prevention of CKD, 44 to ensure more choices for patients with kidney disease 45,46 and to overcome disparities in renal nutrition service capacity and education. 41,42,47,48 J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f Functional Nutrition in Kidney Care…”

Global Kidney Nutrition Care and Health Literacy: Overcoming the Disparities in Renal Nutrition Service Capacity and Education

“…7 These remarkable data suggest that the field of renal nutrition is significantly affected by global inequalities in kidney care that include racial disparities in many regions of the world, notwithstanding recent efforts to overcome and end vestiges of structural racism in medicine and kidney health. 8 Several targeted measures can be considered to improve these gaps that may stem from deficiencies in health literacy related to renal nutrition. First, there should be more studies on the potential benefits of plant-based diets with expanded research on the role of plantdominant and plant-focused diet plans on gut microbiome and beyond.…”