A new study shows that when it comes to this critical area of organ donation, African-Americans like to keep it in the family.
"African-Americans are overrepresented in the dialysis population and they are underrepresented among those who receive living donor kidney transplants, the best option for long-term treatment of kidney disease," said Amber Reeves-Daniel, lead author of the study and medical director of the Living Kidney Donor Program at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, in Winston-Salem, N.C. “The more we can understand what contributes to people's willingness to donate one of their kidneys, the better job we can do of educating potential living donors about the need and allay fears about the risks.”
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