Influence of race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status on kidney disease

Nature Reviews Nephrology

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 533-541

  Patzer, Rachel E ^a   McClellan, William M ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH WEIGHT; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; ETHNICITY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEALTH LITERACY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; OBESITY; PATIENT CARE; PERINATAL PERIOD; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; SOCIAL STATUS;

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; POVERTY; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865496296     PISSN: 17595061     EISSN: 1759507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneph.2012.117     Document Type: Review

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