Race/Ethnicity, Poverty Status, and Renal Transplant Outcomes

Autor: Press, Rebecca, Carrasquillo, Olveen, Nickolas, Thomas, Radhakrishnan, Jai, Shea, Steven, Barr, R Graham
Zdroj: Transplantation; October 2005, Vol. 80 Issue: 7 p917-924, 8p
Abstrakt: There are known racial disparities in renal graft survival. Data are lacking comparing associations of race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status with graft failure and functional status after transplantation. Our goal was to test if African-American and Hispanic race/ethnicity and poverty are associated with worse outcomes following renal transplantation.
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