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

DURHAM, N.C. – In a finding that could help reduce the racial disparity in kidney disease, Duke Health researchers have detailed how two ...

Duke Health researchers have detailed how two common gene variants among African Americans can cause kidney failure.

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

In a finding that could help reduce the racial disparity in kidney disease, Duke Health researchers have detailed how two common gene ...

Genetic risk factor for kidney disease identified in West African ...

Previous research has established that genomic variants in APOL1 increase the risk of developing chronic kidney disease among African Americans.

Genomic variants that increase risk of kidney disease are found in ...

Previous research established that genomic variants in APOL1 increase the risk of developing chronic kidney disease among African Americans.

Why Black Americans are at higher risk of chronic kidney disease

This can lead to serious health problems such as heart disease, stroke and kidney failure. The Black community faces a higher risk of chronic ...

Hypertensive chronic kidney disease in African Americans

The higher rate of hypertension and the lower rate of blood pressure control in African Americans with CKD may contribute to the more rapid progression of CKD ...

Black Kidney Health Matters

This is largely driven by economic, structural, and social determinants of health that have unfairly impacted Black Americans, and as a result, Black ...

Targeting the racial disparity in kidney disease - Knowable Magazine

Some people of West African descent face a higher risk of renal failure. New drugs based on gene research may help right the ship — if they can ...

Race, Ethnicity, & Kidney Disease | National Kidney Foundation

Black or African Americans are more than 3 times as likely and Hispanics or Latinos are 1.3 times more likely to have kidney failure compared to White Americans ...

What's behind racial disparities in kidney disease? - Harvard Health

A game-changer in terms of understanding some of the excess risk for kidney disease in African Americans relative to other racial and ethnic ...

African Americans & Health: Focus on Chronic Kidney Disease (Part ...

High blood pressure can also contribute to hypertensive nephrosclerosis—scarring the glomeruli and diminishing their functionality. Genetic ...

Kidney Disease Among African Americans: A Population Perspective

African Americans are 3 times more likely to require renal replacement therapy then their non-Hispanic white counterparts. This article describes CKD-related ...

Race/ethnicity – Kidney disease risk factors

More than 1 in 3 kidney failure patients living in the United States are African American. Diabetes is the number one cause of kidney failure.

Targeting the Uneven Burden of Kidney Disease on Black Americans

New treatments aim for a gene variant causing the illness in people of sub-Saharan African descent. Some experts worry that focus will neglect other factors.

APOL1 and Kidney Disease: New Insights Leading to Novel Therapies

Our understanding of susceptibility to nondiabetic kidney disease in African Americans advanced substantially with the 2010 discovery of the powerful ...

Chronic kidney disease in African Americans: Puzzle pieces are ...

Risk for all-cause and major cause-specific death in black vs white patients. Adapted from Navaneethan SD, Schold JD, Arrigain S, Jolly SE, ...

Reassessing the Inclusion of Race in Diagnosing Kidney Diseases

Subsequent research by Levey and others found that serum creatinine levels were higher among African American adults who had the same measured GFR as their ...

A racially biased kidney disease test delayed my transplant | STAT

It turns out that the use of a race-based measure of eGFR means it would take about two extra years for a Black individual's kidney function to decline.

African–Americans and Kidney Disease: New Insights into an Old ...

Chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease are a growing epidemic, both in the United States and worldwide. African–Americans are disproportionately ...