African-Americans Respond Much Worse to Dialysis
African-Americans Respond Much Worse to Dialysis
New research shows young African-American patients actually respond much worse to dialysis, and they are still low on the transplant list.
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" Half million Americans are on dialysis the process that in the Olympic kidneys by removing -- next to water from the blood. Conventional. Wisdom of the field of dialysis. Is that. African Americans do better on dialysis and Caucasian. Now a new study is challenging that theory researchers looked at the medical records of over a million patients with advanced kidney to. When they broke down the data by age they were surprised to find the benefit did not apply to patent underage it. -- Adori they get to study at John Hopkins university school of metal from. The previous studies had -- masked the difference between. The young people and real people. The youngest African American patients who were actually quite likely to die on dialysis when compared to the white counterpart. Yet these patients recognize it did quit dialysis rather than try for a kidney transplant based on the old reeker. It's something doctors they need to change based on the new study if you are --"
" Can Americans and young and on dialysis."
" You need to pursue kidney transplantation. Need to look for a living donor and you need to."
" Doctors aren't sure why young African American dialect the patient have to too large to advantage -- patient may have less access to doctors because they're not enough to qualify for Medicare. And are likely thicker than older African American patient when they start dialysis. Eric Edwards and --"
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