Role of Age and Competing Risk of Death in the Racial Disparity of Kidney Failure Incidence after Onset of CKD.
Guofen YanRobert NeeJulia J SciallaTom GreeneWei YuFei HengAlfred K CheungKeith C NorrisPublished in: Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN (2024)
The 2.5-fold higher cumulative incidence of kidney failure in Black adults resulted from a combination of higher hazards of progression to kidney failure and lower hazards of the competing risk of death, both of which can be largely explained by the younger age at CKD onset in Black compared with White adults.