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Chronic kidney disease in African Americans: Puzzle pieces are falling into place
Joseph V. Nally Jr, MD- Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2017, 84 (11) 855-862;
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84gr.17007
African Americans are disproportionately affected; genetic variants in
APOL1 provide an important explanation.
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Disparities in cervical cancer in African American women: What primary care physicians can do
Cynthia Arvizo, MD and Haider Mahdi, MD- Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2017, 84 (10) 788-794;
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.15115
African American women are disproportionately affected, but equal access to care may eliminate most of the disparity.
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Gout and African Americans: Reducing disparities
Bharat Kumar, MD and Petar Lenert, MD, PhD- Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2016, 83 (9) 665-673;
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.15133
African Americans are more likely to suffer from gout and are less likely to receive optimal treatment for it.
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Genitourinary manifestations of sickle cell disease
Surafel Gebreselassie, MD, Matthew N. Simmons, MD, PhD and Drogo K. Montague, MD- Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2015, 82 (10) 679-683;
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.82a.14029
Sickling can lead to nephropathy, priapism, papillary necrosis, and renal medullary carcinoma.