Race, Age, and Kidney Transplant Waitlisting Among Patients Receiving Incident Dialysis in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale & objective

Patients with kidney failure from racial and ethnic minority groups and older patients have reduced access to the transplant waitlist relative to White and younger patients. Although racial disparities in the waitlisting group have declined after the 2014 kidney allocation system change, whether there is intersectionality of race and age in waitlisting access is unknown.

Study design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting & participants

439,455 non-Hispanic White and non-Hispanic Black US adults initiating dialysis between 2015 and 2019 were identified from the United States Renal Data System, and followed through 2020.

Exposures

Patient race and ethnicity (non-Hispanic White and non-Hispanic Black) and age group (18-29, 30-49, 50-64, and 65-

SUBMITTER: Buford J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10518364 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature