The disparities between the health of kidney donors Blacks and Hispanics

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The need for living kidney is higher among blacks, who were significantly more likely to develop end-stage renal disease, but have less access to kidney transplants. The researchers say that blacks are less likely to identify a potential donor and their potential donors are more likely to have health conditions that limit their assessment of the ability to donate.Given the severe shortage of organs, many patients with end-stage renal disease based on the kidney transplant from a living donor. According to Lentine, in 2006, about 27,000 kidney transplants from living donors have been reported around the world, and living donors provided nearly 40 percent of kidney transplants in the United States

“We have long known that diabetes and high blood pressure disproportionately affects blacks and Hispanics. Our research has revealed that racial disparities exist even among living kidney donors after the donation,” said Krista Lentine, MD , associate professor of internal medicine and senior researcher at Saint Louis University School of Medicine. “The increased focus on health outcomes in demographically diverse kidney donors is necessary.”

“All donors must commit to long-term medical monitoring so that any health conditions that arise in the course of time can be recognized and treated,” Lentine said.

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