Renal Business Today - Race & Ethnicity

DaVita Launches Spanish-Language Website

DENVER—Dialysis provider DaVita Inc. has launched a Spanish-language website. ...More

November 16, 2011

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New Policy Reduces Racial Disparity in Transplantation

NEW YORK—A change in the kidney allocation policy dramatically reduced the racial disparity between the rates at which African Americans and whites receive deceased donor kidney transplants (DDKT), according to a study published in the November issue of the American Journal ...More

October 26, 2011

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African Americans More Likely to Donate Kidney to Family Member

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — African Americans donate almost exclusively to family members for living kidney transplants, as compared to Caucasians, according to a study published in the September/October online issue of Clinical Transplantation. ...More

October 19, 2011

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JASN Issue Explores African-American Genes, CKD

WASHINGTON— Compared to European Americans, African Americans are four to five times more likely to develop kidney failure. Also, family members of African Americans with kidney failure have an increased risk of developing kidney failure, which suggests that genetics may ...More

October 17, 2011

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Place, Not Race, May Be Bigger Factor in Health Disparities

Where you live could play a larger role in health disparities than originally thought, according to a new study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. They examined a racially integrated, low-income neighborhood in Baltimore, Md., and found ...More

October 7, 2011

Posted in News, Government & Regulation

Average HgB Levels in Dialysis Patients Fell Slightly

WASHINGTON—In its first post-bundle analysis, the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS) found that the average hemoglobin levels in dialysis patients fell slightly between August 2010 and April 2011. ...More

September 27, 2011

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Sickle Cell Trait Not Risk Factor For Kidney Disease

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center report that sickle cell trait is not a risk factor for the development of severe kidney disease in African-Americans, according to a study in the August online issue of Kidney International. ...More

September 15, 2011

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Blacks Develop Hypertension Faster than Whites

CHARLESTON, S.C.—African-Americans with prehypertension develop high blood pressure a year sooner than whites, according to research reported in Hypertension. ...More

September 13, 2011

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Research Explores Racial Bias in Healthcare Delivery

New Johns Hopkins research shows that medical students have unconscious if not overt preferences for white people, but this innate bias does not appear to translate into different or lesser healthcare of other races. ...More

September 6, 2011

Posted in News, Practice Management

Protein in Urine Contributes to Kidney Failure in African Americans

WASHINGTON— A new study has found that a condition that occurs when the kidneys are damaged and spill protein into the urine contributes to the increased risk of kidney failure in African Americans, according to a study published online Aug. 25 in the Journal of the ...More

August 26, 2011

Posted in News, Clinical & Pharma

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