Gender and Racial Disparities in Initial Hemodialysis Access and Outcomes in Incident End-Stage Renal Disease Patients | Zendy

Anthony C. Leonard | Zendy; Karthikeyan Meganathan | Zendy; Annette Christianson | Zendy; Charuhas V. Thakar | Zendy

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Gender and Racial Disparities in Initial Hemodialysis Access and Outcomes in Incident End-Stage Renal Disease Patients

Author(s) -

Anthony C. Leonard,

Karthikeyan Meganathan,

Annette Christianson,

Charuhas V. Thakar

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

american journal of nephrology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394

H-Index - 85

eISSN - 1421-9670

pISSN - 0250-8095

DOI - 10.1159/000490624

Subject(s) - medicine , end stage renal disease , hemodialysis , kidney disease , stage (stratigraphy) , disease , intensive care medicine , end stage kidney disease , renal replacement therapy , paleontology , biology

Arteriovenous (AV) access confers survival benefits over central venous catheters (CVC) in hemodialysis patients. Although chronic kidney disease disproportionately affects women and racial minorities, disparities in the -utilization of hemodialysis access across Asians, Native Americans, Hispanics, blacks, and whites among males and females after accounting for pre-dialysis health are not well studied.

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