Umeukeje explores barriers to kidney disease screening
Ebele Umeukeje, M.D., M.P.H., (MPH Class of 2015) assistant professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension is the first author on a study highlighting potential barriers that may prevent black Americans from being screened for kidney disease.
The findings, published March 15 in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, may help guide efforts to address important kidney-related disparities in the United States, where the incidence of kidney failure is three times higher in black Americans than in whites, and the prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) continues to rise among black Americans while it has stabilized in other racial groups.