(Reuters Health) - Kidney disease patients who are African American or lack private health insurance are less likely to get matched up with a donor organ before needing to go on dialysis, a new study suggests.
Still, researchers said, as long as patients get a kidney transplant within a year or so of starting dialysis, any extra benefit of a pre-dialysis transplant may be low.
"It's a possible benefit, but it's not entirely clear," said Dr. Morgan Grams, who led the new study at the
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