Research Center to Reduce Ethnic Disparities in ESRD

描述（由申请人提供）：在肾脏健康领域存在着实质性的种族/民族差异。在美国，等待肾脏移植的人中，少数群体占了50%以上。然而，由于少数民族捐献器官的比率反映了他们在人口中的代表性，患有终末期肾病的少数民族的肾脏短缺已经达到了危机的程度。这种趋势表明，除了开展能够更好地确定肾移植率中种族/民族差异的相关性和原因的研究外，还需要进行研究，以确定导致较差健康结果的社会心理和心理神经免疫学因素。研究结果可用于预防运动的设计，从而有效地减少少数群体中高血压、糖尿病、营养不良和运动不足以及合法和非法药物使用的流行。霍华德大学肾脏健康项目输出中心将作为一个制度化和永久性的研究中心，完成研究和测试干预措施和实践，以减少目前肾脏健康方面的种族/民族差异。该中心将由克莱夫·o·卡伦德（Clive O. Callender）博士领导，他是美国首屈一指的肾脏移植专家，也是创造干预措施以弥补肾脏健康中种族/民族差距的先驱。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Substantial racial/ethnic disparities exist in the area of renal health. Minority groups are more than 50% of all persons on the waiting list for a kidney transplant in the United States. Yet, because minorities donate organs at a rate that reflects their representation in the population, the shortage of kidneys for minorities with End-Stage Renal Disease has reached crisis proportions. Such trends suggest that in addition to conducting research that can better define the correlates and causes of racial/ethnic disparities in kidney transplantation rates research is also needed to identify psychosocial and psychoneuroimmunological factors that contribute to poorer health outcomes. The findings can be exported to the design of prevention campaigns and that can efficaciously reduce the prevalence of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, poor nutrition and inadequate exercise, and licit and illicit substance use among minorities. The Howard University Project Export Center of Renal Health will be structured to serve as an institutionalized and permanent research center that will complete research and test interventions and practices that can reduce current racial/ethnic differentials in renal health. The Center will be headed by Dr. Clive O. Callender, the nation's premiere kidney transplantation specialist and a pioneer in creating interventions to remedy racial/ethnic gaps in renal health.