Minority patients with diabetes likelier to advance to kidney disease – Axios

Incidence rate ratios for chronic kidney disease (CKD) among 654,459 patients in the Providence and UCLA health systems with diabetes between 2015 and 2020. Dashed line represents the incidence rate ratio among white patients. Chart: Tuttle et al. "Incidence of Chronic Kidney Disease among Adults with Diabetes, 2015-2020" in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Despite recent progress, there's still a high incidence of chronic kidney disease among adults with diabetes, particularly in minority communities, a new analysis in the New England Journal of Medicine finds.
Driving the news: The review of more than 650,000 patient records found that Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, Black, Native American and Hispanic patients with diabetes had disproportionately higher rates of chronic kidney disease than white patients.
Zoom in: Researchers examined electronic health records from Providence and UCLA patients from 2015 to 2020 to see how many with diabetes clinically progressed to chronic kidney disease.
Yes, but: The rate of chronic kidney disease in diabetes patients in the general population did decline between 2015-2016 to 2019-2020 time period, from 8% to 6.4%.

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