2023

Reevaluating the Role of Race and Ethnicity in Diabetes Screening

Coots, Madison, Saghafian, Soroush, Kent, David et al.

Understand

There is active debate over whether to consider patient race and ethnicity when estimating disease risk.

  • By accounting for race and ethnicity, it is possible to improve the accuracy of risk predictions, but there is concern that their use may encourage a racialized view of medicine.
  • In diabetes risk models, despite substantial gains in statistical accuracy from using race and ethnicity, the gains in clinical utility are surprisingly modest.
  • These modest clinical gains stem from two empirical patterns: first, the vast majority of individuals receive the same screening recommendation regardless of whether race or ethnicity are included in risk models; and second, for those who do receive different screening recommendations, the difference in utility between screening and not screening is relatively small.

Built on

  • Reconsidering the consequences of using race to estimate kidney function

    Nwamaka Denise Eneanya, Wei Yang, and Peter Philip Reese · 2019

    Earlier work this paper cites.

  • From race-based to race-conscious medicine: how anti-racist uprisings call us to act

    Jessica P Cerdeña, Marie V Plaisime, and Jennifer Tsai · 2020

    Earlier work this paper cites.

  • Black kidney function matters: use or misuse of race?

    Neil R Powe · 2020

    Earlier work this paper cites.

  • Hidden in plain sight—reconsidering the use of race correction in clinical algorithms

    Darshali A Vyas, Leo G Eisenstein, and David S Jones · 2020

    Earlier work this paper cites.

Similar

  • Clinical implications of removing race from estimates of kidney function

    James A Diao, Gloria J Wu, Herman A Taylor, John K Tucker, Neil R Powe, Isaac S Kohane, and Arjun K Manrai · 2021

    Cited alongside, same era.

  • Race and gender differences in abnormal blood glucose screening and clinician response to prediabetes: a mixed-methods assessment

    Tainayah W Thomas, Carol Golin, Carmen D Samuel-Hodge, M Sue Kirkman, Shelley D Golden, and Alexandra F Lightfoot · 2021

    Cited alongside, same era.

  • Diabetes screening by race and ethnicity in the United States: Equivalent body mass index and age thresholds

    Rahul Aggarwal, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Robert W. Yeh, Yang Song, Nicholas Chiu, Rishi K. Wadhera, Changyu Shen, and Dhruv S. Kazi · 2022

    Cited alongside, same era.

  • National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Data, 2022

    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) · 2022

    Cited alongside, same era.

Then

  • Patient-centered appraisal of race-free clinical risk assessment

    Charles F Manski · 2022

    Later among the works it cites.

  • Using measures of race to make clinical predictions: Decision making, patient health, and fairness

    Charles F Manski, John Mullahy, and Atheendar Venkataramani · 2022

    Later among the works it cites.

  • Use of race in clinical algorithms

    Anirban Basu · 2023

    Closest in time.

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