A Research Center to Reduce Ethnic Disparities in ESRD

描述（由申请人提供）：肾脏健康领域存在实质性种族/民族差异。在美国，少数群体占肾移植等候名单上所有人的50%以上。然而，由于少数民族捐赠器官的比例反映了他们在人口中的代表性，少数民族终末期肾病患者的肾脏短缺已经达到了危机的程度。这种趋势表明，除了进行研究，可以更好地确定相关因素和原因的种族/民族差异在肾移植率的研究，还需要确定心理社会和心理神经免疫因素，有助于较差的健康结果。研究结果可用于设计预防运动，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使用药物的流行率。霍华德大学肾脏健康项目出口中心将作为一个制度化的永久性研究中心，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·奥博士领导。卡伦德是美国首屈一指的肾移植专家，也是创造干预措施以弥补肾脏健康方面种族/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.