Seminars in Nephrology
Volume 30, Issue 1 , Pages 1-2 , January 2010

Health Disparities and the Kidney: Introduction

  • Ashwini R. Sehgal, MD (Guest Editor)

      Affiliations

    • Center for Reducing Health Disparities, Case Western University, and Division of Nephrology, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH
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  • Michele Abraham, MSSA, LISW (Guest Editor)

      Affiliations

    • Center for Reducing Health Disparities, Case Western University, Cleveland, OH

References 

  1. US Renal Data System. USRDS 2008 annual data report. Bethesda, MD: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases; 2008;
  2. Alexander G, Sehgal AR. Barriers to cadaveric renal transplantation among blacks, women, and the poor. JAMA. 1998;280:1148–1152
  3. Sehgal AR. Universal health care as a health disparity intervention. Ann Intern Med. 2009;150:561–562

 Supported by grant P60MD002265 from the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.

PII: S0270-9295(09)00171-5

doi: 10.1016/j.semnephrol.2009.10.005

Seminars in Nephrology
Volume 30, Issue 1 , Pages 1-2 , January 2010

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