Racial disparities in chronic kidney diseases in the United States; a pressing public health challenge with social, behavioral and medical causes

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA ; Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture and Health, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Editorial

Shervin Assari. J Nephropharmacol. 2015.

. 2015 Dec 12;5(1):4-6.

eCollection 2016.

¹ Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA ; Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture and Health, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: Chronic kidney disease; End stage renal disease; Health disparities; Socio-economics.

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