Kidney
County-level structural racism may affect mortality rates in people with kidney failure
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A new analysis indicates that county-level structural racism is a significant determinant of death among indiv...
Deprived Neighborhoods and Disparities in Access to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation
The optimal treatment for patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) is living donor kidney transplantation, which offers improved health outcom...
Study Links Chronic Kidney Disease To Sudden Cardiac Arrest In Latino Adults
Chronic kidney disease and high alcohol consumption appear to be strongly linked to a higher risk of sudden cardiac arrest in Latino adults, shows ...
Barriers and Facilitators to Home Dialysis Among Latinx Patients with Kidney Disease
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Latinx people have a high burden of kidney disease but are less likely to receive home dialysis compared to non-Latinx W...
Minority patients with diabetes likelier to advance to kidney disease
Incidence rate ratios for chronic kidney disease (CKD) among 654,459 patients in the Providence and UCLA health systems with diabetes between 2015 ...
Identification of 969 protein quantitative trait loci in an African American population with kidney disease attributed to hypertension
. 2022 Jul 20;S0085-2538(22)00547-6.
doi: 10.1016/j.kint.2022.07.005.
Online ahead of print.
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