Young black patients on kidney dialysis do much worse -- not better -- than white counterparts, study finds
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 - 16:30
in Health & Medicine
For years, medical studies have reached the same conclusion: African-American patients do better on kidney dialysis than their white counterparts. But new research shows that younger blacks -- those under the age of 50 -- actually do much worse on dialysis than equally sick whites who undergo the same blood-filtering process.