Social Determinants of Health and Race Disparities in Kidney Transplant.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Black patients have a higher incidence of kidney failure but lower rate of deceased- and living-donor kidney transplantation compared with White patients, even after taking differences in comorbidities into account. We assessed whether social determinants of health (e.g., demographics, cultural, psychosocial, knowledge factors) could account for race differences in receiving deceased- and living-donor kidney transplantation.

Design, setting, participants, & measurements

Via medical record review, we prospectively followed 1056 patients referred for kidney transplant (2010-2012), who completed an interview soon after kidney transplant evaluation, until their kidney transplant. We used multivariable competing risk models to estimate the

SUBMITTER: Wesselman H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7863655 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature