Patient’s Race and Method of Dialysis Are Linked to Higher Risk of Blood Infection

February 6, 2023

(STAT News) – Hispanic, Latino, and non-Hispanic Black Americans on dialysis for end-stage kidney disease have a higher risk of developing life-threatening bloodstream infections, a new report says.  And those racial and ethnic disparities are deepened by another risk factor: how the patient received hemodialysis. Going through a central venous catheter straight into major veins was linked to higher rates of infection than less invasive routes. (Read More)