african americans

(MedPage Today) -- Racial disparities persist in treatment of acute ischemic stroke, with African Americans less often receiving top-line care, a study conducted in Michigan showed.

(Wiley-Blackwell) New research suggests African-Americans have a higher burden of multiple, large-joint osteoarthritis (OA), and may not be recognized based on the current definition of "generalized OA." African-Americans were also more likely to have knee OA, but less likely to be affected by hand OA than Caucasians according to the findings reported today in Arthritis & Rheumatism, a peer-reviewed journal of the American College of Rheumatology.

(American Society of Nephrology) Highlights: African Americans with certain gene variants develop non-diabetic kidney disease more often than expected.

African Americans with these variants risk developing focal segmental glomerulosclerosis and HIV nephropathy in particular and may need dialysis at a young age.

Screening for these variants could identify individuals who should receive kidney-protective treatments

(American Society of Nephrology) African-Americans are four times more likely to develop kidney failure than whites.

A new study has found that a condition that occurs when the kidneys are damaged and spill protein into the urine contributes to this increased risk.

(MedPage Today) -- The outlook for patients with lupus nephritis who develop end-stage renal disease has not improved in recent years despite advances in treatment -- and the condition is on the increase in younger patients and African Americans -- researchers reported.

(Massachusetts General Hospital) According to a new study released online today, a majority of Americans, including most African Americans, stand together in support of banning menthol in cigarettes just as other cigarette flavorings have now been banned by the FDA.

African Americans do significantly worse after a heart transplant than Caucasians, but not because they were getting racially mismatched organs, researchers said.

African-Americans are less likely than whites to receive hematopoietic stem cell transplants (HCT) (MedPage Today) -- an expensive procedure that can greatly increase survival for cancers of the blood, a new study found.

New research on racial disparity in stroke statistics between African-Americans and whites in the U.S.

Many African-Americans in California enrolled in health maintenance organizations (HMOs) appear to prefer getting medical treatment in emergency rooms, researchers said.