African-American Canadians who receive kidney transplants fare better than those in US

Thursday, October 30, 2008 - 07:21 in Health & Medicine

African American kidney disease patients in both Canada and the United States are less likely than Caucasian Americans to have access to kidney transplants, but only African-Americans in the United States have worse health outcomes than Caucasians after a transplant is performed, according to a study appearing in the January 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology...

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