Introduction: APOL1-Associated Kidney Disease

African Americans develop kidney failure at rates four to five times higher than European Americans. Although older reports have hinted at this disparity for some time, it was neither widely appreciated nor reliably quantified until relatively recently. It is hard to overstate the importance of this difference in kidney disease risk. Almost 40% of dialysis patients in the United States are African American. If this disparity could be reduced, there would be an enormous increase in health and decrease in heath care expenditures

Source: Seminars in Nephrology - October 27, 2017 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Martin R. Pollak Source Type: research