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Kidney disease prevalent in urban public health care
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted March 29, 2010
Chronic kidney disease afflicts a large number of young minority adults who receive care in an urban public health system, according to a study published online March 3 in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
Researchers examined data on 15,353 adults age 20 and older who had non-dialysis dependent CKD stages 3 to 5. All participants received ambulatory care in the Community Health Network in San Francisco from Jan. 1, 1996, to Dec. 31, 2005 (link).
The study found that the rates of progression to end-stage renal disease peaked among participants in the youngest age group, those age 20 to 39. Blacks, Hispanics and Asian/Pacific Islanders with CKD were at higher risk of developing end-stage renal disease than were whites.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2010/03/29/prbf0329.htm.