Deaths from blood-pressure-driven kidney disease have increased dramatically during the past quarter-century, according to a new study.
Deaths from high blood pressure-related kidney disease increased by nearly half in the U.S. over the past 25 years, researchers reported Thursday at an American Heart Association meeting in Baltimore.
The highest death rates were among Black Americans, followed by Hispanic people, results show.
"Despite national efforts to reduce health inequalities, Black individuals still had over three times the death rate compared to other groups of people," researcher Dr. Joiven Nyongbella said in a news release. He's an internal medicine resident at Wayne State University/Henry Ford Rochester Hospital in Detroit.
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