Race differences in access to health care and disparities in incident chronic kidney disease in the US

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 899-908

  Evans, Kira ^a,b   Coresh, Josef ^a,b   Bash, Lori D ^a,b   Gary Webb, Tiffany ^d   Köttgen, Anna ^a,b   Carson, Kathryn ^a,b   Boulware, L Ebony ^a,b,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

access to health care; chronic kidney disease; disparities

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INCOME; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING HABIT; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COHORT STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; INSURANCE, HEALTH; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79951808488     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfq473     Document Type: Article

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