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Race-Free Equations and Cardiovascular Risk Assessment: Much Ado About Something Cover

Race-Free Equations and Cardiovascular Risk Assessment: Much Ado About Something

Open Access
|Oct 2026

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Figure 1

The HELIUS Study: Testing a race-free kidney equation in a multiethnic European population. Graphical summary of the effect of replacing the 2009 race-based CKD-EPI equation with the 2021 race-free equation on estimated glomerular filtration rate, chronic kidney disease classification, and cardiovascular risk stratification in the multiethnic HELIUS cohort. Figure designed by the author using OpenAI ChatGPT (GPT-5.6 Sol) for graphical layout and image generation.

Abbreviations: CKD: chronic kidney disease; eGFR: estimated glomerular filtration rate; SCORE2: Systematic Coronary Risk Evaluation 2; US: United States.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gh.1591 | Journal eISSN: 2211-8179
Language: English
Page range: 76 - 76
Submitted on: Sep 24, 2026
Accepted on: Sep 28, 2026
Published on: Oct 23, 2026
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2026 George A. Mensah, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.