Posted on 02/25/2022 11:51:04 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The U.S. transplant system needs an overhaul to stop wasting organs and give more patients a fair chance at the life-saving surgery, says an influential scientific advisory panel that set a five-year deadline to turn things around.
More than 106,000 patients are on the nation’s list for a transplant from a deceased donor, and at least 17 die every day waiting. Many more who could benefit from a transplant never get put on the waiting list, particularly people of color, the report stressed.
“While the transplant system does a lot of good things and saves a lot of lives, it is demonstrably inequitable and doesn’t work for enough people,” Dr. Kenneth Kizer, a well-known expert in health care quality who chaired the panel, told The Associated Press. “A lot of things can be done to make the system work better for more people.”
Black Americans are three times more likely to suffer from kidney failure than white people but far less likely to be referred for transplant evaluation. They wait longer for a deceased-donor organ, and are less likely to find a living donor.
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Thanks for that.
still doesn’t give any numbers for the assertions made in the article.
here’s a link within the link you gave with some interesting stats. One can get the numbers by doing the math.
About 1 in 9 (11.7%) African American adults has diabetes compared to about 1 in 13 (7.5%) white adults. (Whites are approx. 55% and blacks are approx. 12% of the population as of the 2020 census)
https://www.kidneyfund.org/all-about-kidneys/risk-factors/raceethnicity-kidney-disease-risk-factors
“More than 1 in 3 kidney failure patients living in the United States are African American.”
not sure how you can extrapolate that to 3x more than whites...
I suppose someone somewhere has numbers not percentages...I’m too lazy to look any more.
Thanks. Congrats and I hear ya.
I have a lot of co-morbidities that is taking me down that path.
I hope we arrested mine in time.
Interesting\scary statement in that article - maybe the U.S. should look to see what France is doing ? :
“For example, Kizer said nearly 25% of donated kidneys went unused last year, a level the panel wants to drop to 5% or less by 2026.
Studies have found that surgeons in France regularly implant lower-quality kidneys from older donors than their American counterparts with similar success.
Yet not all hospitals agree to use such organs and Kizer said too often patients are never told if their doctor turned down a chance.”
for bone marrow transplants, the elites were actually paying out black donors to give them incentive to have their bone marrow registered....we pale faces are never rewarded....
my now dead SIL was on dialysis, but she had drs appts virtually every single day....her skin, her eyes, cardiac.....
except he's had lymes diseases, had no health insurance at the time, and was over 60....
sorry, I did not want my husband doing it...this sibling talked behind his back for many yrs and was not very loving towards either of us....
she had a husband and she had a son and 4 grandchildren....I don't think she even asked any of them.
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