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Diabetes and high blood pressure are the leading causes of CKD in African Americans. 1
32% of African Americans within the entire US population have been treated for kidney failure. 2
African Americans are seven times more likely to develop kidney disease compared to white Americans. 2
African Americans tend to develop kidney problems at approximately age 57. 2
African Americans younger than 65 years old with early-stage kidney disease have a 78 percent higher death risk than white patients. 3
One-third of diabetic African Americans are unaware that they have kidney problems. 2
Statistics show that many African Americans are unaware of the connection between high blood pressure and chronic kidney disease. 2
153,602 Blacks/African Americans in 2005 developed End Stage Renal Disease. 4
30,026 Blacks/African Americans in 2005 received dialysis treatment compared to 67,896 in the same year Whites. 4
202 Blacks/African Americans in 2005 received a transplant compared to 1,851 Whites in the same year. 4
Typically African Americans have increasingly higher rates of developing CKD compared to Whites. 5
Compared with Whites in the same age group, African-American men between the ages of 20 to 29 are 10 times more likely to develop kidney failure due to high blood pressure. 6
- National Kidney Disease Education Program: Diabetes & High Blood Pressure: Make the Kidney Connection. Available at http://www.nkdep.nih.gov/resources/African_American_brochure.pdf. Accessed September 4, 2008.
Davita – Risk for CKD in African Americans.
Available at: http://www.davita.com/kidney- disease/c/128 Accessed September 4, 2008
Renal Business Today: African Americans with early-stage CKD have higher death risk than whites. Available at: http://www.renalbusiness.com/articles/practice/early-ckd-blacks-have-higher-death-risk.html. Accessed September 4, 2008
United States Renal Data System. USRDS 2007 Annual Data Report. Bethesda, MD: National
Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS); 2007. Available at: http://www.usrds.org/2007/ref/D_modalities_07.pdf?zoom_highlight=485+012+ Accessed September 4, 2008.
Medscape Today: Excess risk of chronic kidney disease among African-American versus white subjects in the United States: a population-based study of potential explanatory factors. Available at: http://www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/12191981. Accessed on September 4, 2008
National Kidney Disease Education Program: African Americans and Kidney Disease Fact Sheet. Available at: http://www.nkdep.nih.gov/news/campaign/african_americans.htm. Accessed on September 4, 2008.
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