New Insights on Kidney Disease in African Americans Could Lead to ...

Chronic Kidney Disease - A Window into Understanding Health ...

2013. Aug;62(2):236-44. Page 23. The higher incidence of kidney failure among African Americans appears due to a.

Study addresses barriers to kidney disease screening among Black ...

New research points to potential barriers that may prevent Black Americans from being ... Black Americans' Perspectives of Barriers and ...

Kidney Disease - VA's Office of Research and Development

People are at greater risk of developing CKD if they have diabetes, high blood pressure, or heart disease. African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and American ...

Kidney Function and Systolic Blood Pressure New Insights From ...

Hypertension is an important risk factor for the progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD) to end-stage renal disease (ESRD), and adequate control of blood ...

Experts Shine Light on Kidney Disease, Share Hopes for the Future

CKD also disproportionately burdens minority populations, such as African-American and Hispanic populations, that might have a predisposition to ...

CC Grand Rounds Lecture:(1)Why Do African-Americans Get More ...

The event can ... CC Grand Rounds Lecture:(1)Why Do African-Americans Get More Kidney Disease? New Insights from Chromosome 22(2)Osteoporosis and ...

Protective genetic variant shields Black Americans from kidney ...

Many Black Americans who are thought to have a high risk of developing kidney disease possess a protective genetic variant that nullifies ...

Exploring the genetic basis of early-onset chronic kidney disease

disease and can generate new insights into disease mechanisms ... the first examples as to how the identification of a mono- genic cause of SRNS ...

Kidney Disease Among Georgia's African American Population

Thanks to the new research, doctors can now test for the gene with a swab of the cheek. Because of this progress, Crenshaw believes there's a ...

Hypertension as Cardiovascular Risk Factor in Chronic Kidney ...

... can be a cause and a consequence of a decrease in kidney function. ... In the AASK (African American Study of Kidney Disease Cohort Study) ...

Primary IgA Nephropathy: New Insights and Emerging Therapies

22–25 While it may represent lead time bias, it is nevertheless valuable for predicting the risk of kidney failure in practice. The Oxford Classification.

Kidney Precision Medicine Project and novel technologies provide ...

Kidney Precision Medicine Project and novel technologies provide new insight into DKD ... and targets that will lead us toward these novel ...

New Insights on Cardiac Arrhythmias in Patients With Kidney Disease

SummaryThe risk of arrhythmia and its management become increasingly complex as kidney disease progresses. This presents a multifaceted clinical challenge.

Ethnicity adjustment for kidney function testing removed from NICE ...

This came as a result of studies from the US, which showed that people who self-identified as African-American generally had higher creatinine ...

Cancer Statistics - NCI

... will be diagnosed with cancer and 1,590 will die of the disease. ... On the other hand, the incidence of cancer may rise due to a new ...

Chronic kidney disease: Symptoms, stage, treatment, and more

African American, Hispanic, Native American, and Asian American people have a greater chance of developing CKD than people who are white. This may be due to ...

Insights from 3,600 chronic kidney disease patients - Antidote.me

and conditions that can lead to kidney disease become more common ... Kidney Fund, African Americans are more at risk for kidney ...

Health Inequities, APOL1, and Chronic Kidney Disease in African ...

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) affects 37 million Americans. African Americans and Blacks have 2-4 times greater risk of development of kidney ...

New insights into the link between sunlight exposure and kidney ...

A new collaborative study reveals unexpected insights into how skin exposure to ultraviolet light can worsen clinical symptoms in autoimmune ...

New Insights on the Risk for Cardiovascular Disease in African ...

Our studies suggest that underlying genetic mechanisms may be responsible for the increased frequency of high BP and kidney disease in African Americans, with ...