Researchers at Penn Medicine, Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s found that a third of Black patients in their study, more than 700 people, would have been placed into a more severe category of kidney disease if their kidney function had been estimated using the same formula as for white patients. Study author Nwamaka Eneanya, MD, MPH, comments.
To understand health and disease today, we need new thinking and novel science —the kind we create when multiple disciplines work together from the ground up. That is why this department has put forward a bold vision in population-health science: a single academic home for biostatistics, epidemiology and informatics.
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