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AIDSMAP, May 07, 2008. HIV-infected African-Americans who develop kidney disease are more likely to have a more aggressive form of the disease than white people with HIV, say US researchers writing in the June 1st edition of the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
Chronic kidney disease, and its most serious form, end stage renal disease, are more common in HIV-infected individuals. A 2004 study using data from the US Renal Data System suggested that the risk of developing end-stage renal disease is around 50 times higher in HIV-infected African-Americans than in HIV-infected whites (Eggers and Kimmel 2004).
But because patients are enrolled on to this database when they start dialysis – or renal replacement therapy– researchers have been unsure of the effect of race on earlier stages of chronic kidney disease. |
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