Title: Race, Ethnicity, & Kidney Disease | National Kidney Foundation
Headings: Race, Ethnicity, & Kidney Disease
Race, Ethnicity, & Kidney Disease
Change the Face of Kidney Disease
What is kidney disease?
Can anyone get kidney disease?
Why are minority populations at greater risk for kidney disease?
How does healthcare access play a role?
What can I do to prevent kidney disease?

Content: Having diabetes can lead to kidney disease and kidney failure. The rates of kidney failure caused by diabetes have doubled in Asian Americans ages 30-39 between 2000-2010. Diabetes also causes kidney failure more often in Hispanics or Latinos than in White Americans. High blood pressure is also a serious problem for minorities. High blood pressure strikes more than 1 out of 3 Blacks or African Americans, one of the highest rates in the world. Nearly 1 in 4 Hispanics or Lations has high blood pressure and most do not know that high blood pressure can cause kidney disease. How does healthcare access play a role? Minority populations may have less access to healthcare than other Americans. For example, studies found that about one-third of Hispanics or Latinos, 20% Blacks or African Americans, and nearly 1 out of 3 American Indians and Alaska Natives were uninsured. Many people from minority populations do not even know they have kidney disease until it's in the latest stages.