Kidney failure takes deadly toll on blacks in Chicago
April 1, 2008
In parts of the city’s largely African-American South and West Sides, kidney failure rates are more than twice as high as the national average and three times higher than in the rest of the city, federal statistics show. Those differences are driven by staggeringly high rates of diabetes and hypertension—the top two causes of kidney failure—among Chicago’s black residents. (Chicago Tribune)
