Hi again Ginger.

I just read the article on low WBC that you sent me. What I find interesting is that the article said that in black people they said that their WBC tends to run lower. And from what I have read MGUS and MM are more common in black men. I think it is also interesting that in chronic kidney disease there was a different GFR ratio for black people than caucasian. This resulted in poorly diagnosed CKD in black people. I think Scientists are rethinking how they interpret different tests and hope they perhaps rethink the, “WBC tend to be lower naturally in Black people.” statement. Maybe black people are also slowly diagnosed for this disease as they were for chronic kidney disease.

This is just a thought from someone who also has CKD, acquired due to a tennis ball sized cyst which blocked my kidney, and destroyed 2/3 of my left kidney function prior to surgical removal. Diagnosis eluded them as it was a thing that was more common in men then women, and my case was a rarity. It always worries me now when I see things like the aforementioned statement about black people. And I am caucasian. I hope they rethink their assessment that black people naturally have lower WBCs.