Higher Health Risks for Blacks Who Donate Kidney

Such donors are more likely than whites to develop high blood pressure or diabetes.........

BOSTON — Blacks who donate one of their kidneys have a higher risk of high blood pressure, diabetes and kidney disease compared to white donors, doctors reported on Wednesday.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38761177/ns/health-more_health_news/

The findings in the New England Journal of Medicine mean doctors need to pay more attention to the health of donors, said the team, led by Dr. Krista Lentine of the Saint Louis University School of Medicine.

"We are not proposing any change to donor selection policy based on these data, and do not believe that race and ethnicity should be used to discourage anyone from stepping forward for potential donor evaluation," she said in a e-mail.

About 27,000 kidney transplants from living donors are done worldwide each year; about 11,000 are performed in the United States.

The average waiting time for a kidney is 1,121 days, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing. More than 91,000 Americans are waiting for a kidney and non-whites are less likely to get a good match for transplant.

Most people can donate without ill effects, but that conventional wisdom is based on studies that include very few non-whites.

Lentine and her colleagues sought better information using insurance information on 4,650 U.S. donors followed for an average of eight years.

Compared to whites, black donors were 52 percent more likely to develop high blood pressure, and more than twice as likely to develop chronic kidney disease or diabetes requiring drug therapy.

But such problems are already more common in the black community for a variety of possible reasons, such as having less access to health care.

Blacks make up 34 percent of the people awaiting a kidney transplant, Lentine said.

The risks were similar for Hispanic donors, who make up 18 percent of the population who need a donated kidney, the researchers said.

Okay, so here we have another piece of liberal propaganda being peddled by the Presidential lap-dogs over at MSNBC. Niggers are of course more at risk for these conditions because of genetics and lifestyle, which of course the writer fails to mention leaving the sheeple to believe the major blame is “not enough access to health care”.

Oh boy, I find it more interesting that this is not a problem amongst whites, which must make it our fault of course! I know maybe if whites pick up the tab for the care of non-whites the problem will correct itself..........[INSERT BUZZER SOUND HERE]........Wrong, this is not a question of the availability of healthcare, but more an issue of the diet of the person in question which alot of obese non-whites, of which there are demographically more, take in excessive amounts of sugary, high glycemic food.

There are far too many morbidly overweight Americans of all races but obesity is particularly prevalent among NIGGERS specifically........As such it is unsurprising that American NIGGERS have a high rate of diabetes. They don’t need more subsidized health care! What they need to do is eat more vegetables and less garbage.


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