It’s Black History Month and Disparities Remain in PD and
Home HD
There are still health disparities in kidney disease. Per the
USRDS:
As of 2022 (the most recent year for data), Black people were
twice as likely to develop kidney failure as Hispanic people
and four times as likely as White people. Just 8.7% of PD patients were Black—vs.
15.2% White. On home HD, 2.2% were Black and
3.3% were White.
We need to better identify and address reasons for disparities
so everyone has an equal chance to be on a treatment that fits
what matters to them. And we need to ask what matters.
We can do this by using a decision aid like MEI’s free My Kidney Life
Plan.
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Featured Link: 2024 USRDS Annual Data
Report
Released in November, 2024, the new report includes a chapter on Home
Dialysis and reams of useful data on everything from incidence and
prevalence of chronic kidney disease, acute kidney injury, end-stage
kidney disease, and all of the treatment options. https://usrds-adr.niddk.nih.gov/2024
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