Despite efforts over the past two decades to increase the number of black and Hispanic patients receiving kidney transplants from related or unrelated living donors, these racial/ethnic minority patients are still much less likely to undergo such transplants than white patients, according to an NHLBI-funded study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. In fact, the investigators say, the disparities have worsened in the last 20 years.
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