{"id":62421,"date":"2021-11-29T02:30:30","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T02:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62421"},"modified":"2021-11-29T02:30:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T02:30:31","slug":"race-is-a-social-construct-it-is-not-a-biological-determinant-of-health-or-disease-he-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62421","title":{"rendered":"\u201cRace is a social construct; it is not a biological determinant of health or disease,\u201d he said."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The initial move across the country to change the formula was initially sparked about five years ago by medical students who raised questions about using race in medical tests and the influence it can have on a patient\u2019s treatment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.dom.pitt.edu\/renal\/faculty_info.aspx\/Palevsky5112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul Palevsky<\/a>, president of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kidney.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Kidney Foundation<\/a>, said the inclusion of race sends a \u201cwrong message.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRace is a social construct; it is not a biological determinant of health or disease,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ovetta Wiggins, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62392\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Maryland Medical System drops race-based algorithm officials say harms Black patients<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Washington Post<\/em>, November 17, 2021. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/md-politics\/maryland-hospital-black-diagnostic-test-kidneys\/2021\/11\/17\/e69edcfc-4711-11ec-b05d-3cb9d96eb495_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/md-politics\/maryland-hospital-black-diagnostic-test-kidneys\/2021\/11\/17\/e69edcfc-4711-11ec-b05d-3cb9d96eb495_story.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The initial move across the country to change the formula was initially sparked about five years ago by medical students who raised questions about using race in medical tests and the influence it can have on a patient\u2019s treatment. Paul Palevsky, president of the National Kidney Foundation, said the inclusion of race sends a \u201cwrong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31976,32495,32546,2875,2581],"class_list":["post-62421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-national-kidney-foundation","tag-ovetta-wiggins","tag-paul-palevsky","tag-the-washington-post","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62422,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62421\/revisions\/62422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}