Socioeconomic Issues

Minorities and the Poor Have Less Access to Kidney Transplants

Published in Women's Health Weekly, October 12th, 1998

Researchers reported that a number of barriers at several steps in the organ transplantation process are responsible for African-Americans, women, and the poor having less access to donated kidneys for transplantation.

G. Caleb Alexander, MD, now with the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and Ashwini R. Seligal, MD, of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, studied 7,125 patients beginning long-term dialysis between January 1993 and December 1996 in Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio to determine the relative importance of each of four steps in the transplantation process in explaining differences in cadaveric kidney transplantation rates: A) being...

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