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. 2025 Nov 21:10.2215/CJN.0000000965.
doi: 10.2215/CJN.0000000965. Online ahead of print.

Why Am I on Dialysis? Gaps in Rural CKD Care in Central California

Marimar Contreras Nieves  1 , Aya Aziz  2 , Angelina Powers  1 , Esteban Banda  1 , Stefan Jaskulak  1 , Melissa Cerezo  1 , Itzel Ramirez  1 , Xue Yu  1 , Mackenzie Moreno  3 , Diana Jimenez  1 , Irima Ajang  1 , Pablo Garcia  4 , Hemant Dhingra  5 , Gopal G Krishna  6 , Mitchell R Lunn  1 , Manjula Kurella Tamura  1 , Maria Montez-Rath  1 , Juan Rodriguez  7 , Tom Yang  8 , Shuchi Anand  1
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Why Am I on Dialysis? Gaps in Rural CKD Care in Central California

Marimar Contreras Nieves et al. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. .
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Keywords: CKD; ESKD; community engagement and health; dialysis; patient-centered care; social determinants of health.

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Figure 1:. Federally Designated Medically Underserved Areas in California.
There are 48 Census-Designated MUAs across the 16 Central Valley counties and the six Central Coast counties. The 2020 U.S. Census data estimated the population of these two regions at approximately nine million. Meanwhile, the relatively more affluent Bay Area contains 18 MUAs across its nine counties, with a population of approximately eight million. Thus, a greater proportion of the Central Valley and Central Coast population lives in a MUA. Abbreviations: MUA – Medically Underserved Area
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