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A member asked:
My gfr non afro is 100 but my gfr afro american is 120 what's the difference?
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They Get High: The difference is 120-100=100. Brilliant. I'm brilliant! 16 years of higher education paid off! Also, keep in mind that those are estimates based on giant samples of each group and, as any NBA or NFL fan can see, average African Americans have more muscle mass than the white Caucasians. That means more muscle by products (like creatine) have to be filtered so the average estimated GFR is higher.
Answered 11/9/2015
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