Do African Americans have a higher risk of kidney disease?
Do African Americans have a higher risk of kidney disease?
One-third of dialysis patients are African American. Learn more about the gene that puts African Americans at higher risk in this video with Griffin Rodgers, MD, the National Institutes of Health director of diabetes, digestive and kidney disease.
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