Campaign Targets Kidney Disease Disparities
The National Kidney Disease Education Program has launched a national awareness effort aimed at primary care physicians and their African-American adult patients. African-American men ages 22-44 are 20 times more likely to develop kidney failure due to high blood pressure than their Caucasian counterparts, and 45 percent of them receive late referrals to nephrologists.
Go to http://www.nkdep.nih.gov to learn more.
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