{"id":6551,"date":"2023-04-12T06:48:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T13:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=6551"},"modified":"2023-04-12T06:48:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T13:48:09","slug":"bringing-racial-equity-to-kidney-transplant-evaluation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2023\/04\/12\/bringing-racial-equity-to-kidney-transplant-evaluation\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing racial equity to kidney transplant evaluation"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"6551\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p>By Ryn Thorn<br>African Americans are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kidney.org\/atoz\/content\/minorities-KD\">more than three times as likely<\/a>\u00a0to have kidney failure than Whites but\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC4193554\/#:~:text=At%201%20year%20following%20renal,the%20rate%20of%20black%20persons.\">four times less likely<\/a>\u00a0to have received a kidney transplant by one year after developing kidney failure. Researchers from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.musc.edu\/departments\/surgery\">Department of Surgery<\/a>\u00a0at MUSC are attempting to address this inequity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kidney transplant surgeon\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/providers.muschealth.org\/sc\/charleston\/derek-allen-dubay-md-msph\">Derek DuBay, M.D.<\/a>, and director of clinical trials\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.musc.edu\/departments\/surgery\/research\/transplant-immunobiology-research\/david-taber\">David Taber, Pharm.D.<\/a>, developed an initiative to help to address kidney transplant disparities affecting African Americans. <a href=\"https:\/\/web.musc.edu\/about\/news-center\/2023\/04\/11\/kidney-transplant-equity\">Read more<\/a> from the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC).<\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"6551\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading By Ryn ThornAfrican Americans are\u00a0more than three times as likely\u00a0to have kidney failure than Whites but\u00a0four times less likely\u00a0to have received a kidney transplant by one year after developing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2023\/04\/12\/bringing-racial-equity-to-kidney-transplant-evaluation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bringing racial equity to kidney transplant evaluation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":3832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_ecp_custom_2":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,368,2],"tags":[408],"post_format":[],"Dislikes":"","Likes":"","simplefavorites_count":"","views":"1078","post_likes_plusCounter":"2","post_dislikes_plusCounter":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6552,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6551\/revisions\/6552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6551"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=6551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}