Tag: racial disparities
Improving access to kidney care for underrepresented ESKD patients
Michael Casey is a transplant nephrologist and Derek DuBay is a transplant surgeon at the Medical University of South Carolina (Charleston, USA). They write...
Demographic reporting “essential” to cut renal trial racial disparities
Though Black patients are “well-represented” in nephrology trials in the USA, Asian patients are insufficiently represented in both US and international studies. That is...
Study finds creatinine-based eGFR equation could reduce racial differences in transplant...
In light of recent shifts away from race-based algorithms in medicine—such as the adjustment for Black race in equations that estimate patients’ kidney function—new...
Transplantation discrepancies contribute to racial disparities in childhood-onset kidney failure survival...
Transplantation discrepancies between Black and white patients have been found to contribute significantly to differing survival rates for childhood-onset kidney failure across the two...