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Kansas City physicians ditch rules treating white people’s kidney disease more seriously

Takeaways: If you drive around Kansas City with an eye to dialysis locations, something becomes clear. They’re clustered near the neighborhoods of people of color. Black people and, to a lesser degree, Hispanics, experience significantly higher rates of kidney failure than the white majority.  Black people make up about 13% of the U.S. population, yet […]