Racial and Ethnic Differences in Chronic Kidney Disease and Its Risk Factors among Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders in Hawaii

• Published in: Nephron (2015) Vol. 147; no. 6; p. 373
• Main Authors: Rhee, Connie M, You, Amy S, Page, Victoria, Hayashida, Glen, Kataoka-Yahiro, Merle, Davis, James, Wong, Linda L, Narasaki, Yoko, Kalantar-Zadeh, Kamyar
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland 01.01.2023
• Subjects: Asian; Hawaii; Humans; Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; Pacific Island People; Renal Insufficiency, Chronic; Risk Factors; Hawaii; Hawaii; Native Hawaiian; Chronic kidney disease; Minorities; Pacific Islander; Asian

Several studies suggest that Asian-American and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander (NHOPI) racial/ethnic groups have a heightened risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD), but provide limited inference due to the aggregation of these groups into a single racial/ethnic category. We thus examined...