Racial differences and income disparities are associated with poor outcomes in kidney transplant recipients with lupus nephritis

Transplantation

Volumn 95, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1471-1478

  Nee, Robert ^a   Jindal, Rahul M ^a,b   Little, Dustin ^a   Ramsey Goldman, Rosalind ^c   Agodoa, Lawrence ^d   Hurst, Frank P ^a   Abbott, Kevin C ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Lupus nephritis; Median household income; USRDS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INCOME; INSURANCE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS NEPHRITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL PREDICTION; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LUPUS NEPHRITIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84880131535     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e318292520e     Document Type: Article

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