Racial and Ethnic Differences in Chronic Kidney Disease and Its Risk Factors among Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders in Hawaii.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Several studies suggest that Asian-American and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander (NHOPI) racial/ethnic groups have a heightened risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD), but provide limited inference due to the aggregation of these groups into a single racial/ethnic category. We thus examined the association of granularly defined racial/ethnic groups with specific CKD indicators among a diverse group of participants from the National Kidney Foundation of Hawaii's Kidney Early Detection Screening (KEDS) Program.

Methods

Among 1,243 participants enrolled in 19 KEDS screening events over 2006-2009, we examined the association between Asian-American and NHOPI groups and specific CKD indicators, defined as self-reported CKD, microalbuminuria, and macroalbuminuria

SUBMITTER: Rhee CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10272063 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature