Black and Hispanic patients still find it hard to receive a live donor kidney, even after waiting for two years and the existing strategies need to be revisited.
National Underutilization of Pre-Emptive, Early Kidney Transplants
80% of kidney transplants at Mayo Clinic in the past 15 years have been from living donors, with 40% of those being pre-emptive living donor transplants.
80% of kidney transplants at Mayo Clinic in the past 15 years have been from living donors, with 40% of those being pre-emptive living donor transplants.
‘Racial and ethnic disparities that persist in live donor kidney transplantation can be reduced by revisiting the strategies available.’
As racial and ethnic minority patients are known to be less likely than white patients to receive a live donor kidney, dozens of changes have been made to transplant processes over the last 2 decades to reduce the disparities. Around 453,162 first-time candidates opted for kidney transplantation between 1995-2014 with follow-up through 2016.
The study measures race and ethnicity (exposures) and time to kidney transplantation from a live donor (outcome).
Native Americans Have Decreased Access to Kidney Transplants
Native Americans also tend to receive transplants at centers associated with worse outcomes and would benefit from receiving transplants at better centers.
Native Americans also tend to receive transplants at centers associated with worse outcomes and would benefit from receiving transplants at better centers.
The authors were Tanjala S. Purnell, Ph.D., M.P.H., Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, and coauthors.
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Gender Disparities Uncovered in Desire to Receive Kidney Transplants
Despite more offers from family and friends, women are much less likely than men to want to receive kidney transplants from living donors among black kidney failure patients undergoing dialysis.
Despite more offers from family and friends, women are much less likely than men to want to receive kidney transplants from living donors among black kidney failure patients undergoing dialysis.
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Study Suggests African-Americans on Medicaid are Far Less Likely to Receive Living Kidney Transplants
A new study suggests that African Americans who have Medicaid as their primary insurance were less likely to receive a living kidney transplant (LKT) compared to patients with private insurance.
A new study suggests that African Americans who have Medicaid as their primary insurance were less likely to receive a living kidney transplant (LKT) compared to patients with private insurance.
