RPA-NIDDK Joint Annual Meeting —— Joint Annual Meeting of the Renal Physicians Association and National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Washington, May 1995: Selected Presentations. Special Topic Issue: Blood Purification 1996, Vol. 14, No. 4

----- 高能清脂素与消化道肾脏疾病研究联席年会

ISBN: 9783805563710 出版年：1996 页码：61 S.Karger

The RPA-NIDDK Conference focused on group differences in kidney disease. These differences, often demographic and unchangeable, drastically affect outcomes. For example, African Americans have a very high incidence of end-stage renal disease but survive longest once on dialysis. This generalization also seems to hold for Mexican Americans. The implications of these observations are profound as they place a burden on these ethnic societies and on health delivery systems. Furthermore, these groups, as well as native Americans, have lower transplantation rates-an observation with major economic and clinical implications. To compound this further, African Americans are at increased risk for graft loss due to multiple immunologic and non-immunologic factors. Nephrologists, internists, health care policymakers and epidemiologists should read this publication because it describes significant medical and economic implications of group differences.