Racial disparities in living kidney donation: is there a lack of willing donors or an excess of medically unsuitable candidates?
Determining the reason behind nondonation is a first step towards understanding low rates of live kidney donation. More African American donor referrals are lost to follow-up while rates of other reasons were similar among races. This may indicate that African Americans are not more frequently medically unsuitable, but that the divergence in rates of live kidney donation is caused by a disparity in willingness to donate among African Americans.
Normal, opposing circadian oscillations in calcineurin-dependent activities and phosphorylation of proteins that regulate contractility are disrupted in heart failure.