An analysis of kidney transplantations performed in the USA between 1998 and 2011 using data from the United Network for Organ Sharing registry has shown that the overall rate of kidney transplantation was equivalent for black and white patients by 2010. Sood and colleagues report that the incidence of kidney transplantation in black patients increased at an annual rate of 2.84%; however, white patients were more likely than black patients to receive a living donor transplant.
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Sood, A. et al. Rates of kidney transplantation from living and deceased donors for blacks and whites in the United States, 1998 to 2011. JAMA Intern. Med. 10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.4530
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Racial disparities in kidney transplantation in the USA. Nat Rev Nephrol 11, 630 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrneph.2015.154
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