Kidney disease is more common in people of African descent, Hispanic or Latino descent, Asian or Pacific Islander descent, American Indian or Alaska Native descent, or Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander descent.
Kidney failure is over three times more prevalent among Black or African Americans than among White Americans, and it is 1.3 times more prevalent among Hispanic or Latino Americans than among White Americans.
Risk For Renal Disease
High blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, and heart disease all raise the risk for renal disease and are disproportionately prevalent in minority communities. The availability of medical care could also be a factor.
Finding kidney illness early and learning about its risk factors can prevent serious complications later on. All people, but especially those who are at risk, need to be tested on a regular basis.
African-Americans and other minorities bear a disproportionate share of the cost of end-stage renal disease in the United States. While just about 13% of Americans are black, over 30% of ESRD patients in the US are people of colour. 27 There is a racial gap in ESRD because African-Americans have a 3.5-fold higher chance of progression from CKD to ESRD than white Americans do. 27–30
Last Words
Visual appearances alone are not sufficient for a medical diagnosis. Even though it goes against our neurophysiological wiring, professional education, and cultural assumptions, we need to retrain ourselves to avoid making snap judgments about our patients based on what they look like.
The ultimate objective of improving outcomes for people with kidney disorders and eliminating gaps between groups may embody key policy and research initiatives to change the social determinants of health, despite their difficulty.
