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Younger Blacks fare relatively worse on dialysis. |
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U.S. News and World Report: Overall, the data showed that blacks did somewhat better on dialysis than whites: 63.5 percent of whites died during treatment compared with 57.1 percent of blacks. However, when the researchers stratified the results by age, they found surprising differences. For blacks aged 18 to 30, the risk of death was about double -- about 28 percent vs. 14 percent for whites. In the 31-to-40 age group, blacks were 1.5 times more likely to die. Between the ages of 41 and 50, the increased risk of death narrowed to about 45 percent vs. 38 percent.
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