The incidence of renal replacement Starting treatment: Ethnicity therapy has been stable (69-74 pmp) The incidence of requiring renal among non-Māori, non-Pacific replacement therapy remained patients, whereas the incidence is 266 substantially higher among Māori and pmp among Māori patients (3.7-fold Pacific patients than among higher) and 443 pmp among Pacific non-Pacific patients. This patients (6.2-fold higher). In 2013, the disparity in entering end-stage kidney ratios were 4.5 among Māori and 5.5 disease remains persistent for Māori among Pacific patients (Figure 5). and is worsening for Pacific patients There is considerable disparity in the over time (Figure 5). opportunity to commence treatment This difference in incidence based on with a kidney transplant (pre-emptive ethnicity is likely to be partly transplantation) based on ethnicity. explained by different demographic Of the 24 patients who received a and clinical characteristics, although kidney transplant, none in the role of ethnicity in development 2014 identified as Māori and 1 (0.8%) of end-stage kidney disease is identified as Pacific ethnicity (Figure incompletely understood. 6).
Starting treatment: Ethnicity The incidence of requiring renal replacement therapy remained substantially higher among Māori and Pacific patients than among non-Pacific patients. This disparity in entering end-stage kidney disease remains persistent for Māori and is worsening for Pacific patients over time (Figure 5). This difference in incidence based on ethnicity is likely to be partly explained by different demographic and clinical characteristics, although the role of ethnicity in development of end-stage kidney disease is incompletely understood. The incidence of renal replacement therapy has been stable (69-74 pmp) among non-Māori, non-Pacific patients, whereas the incidence is 266 pmp among Māori patients (3.7-fold higher) and 443 pmp among Pacific patients (6.2-fold higher). In 2013, the ratios were 4.5 among Māori and 5.5 among Pacific patients (Figure 5). There is considerable disparity in the opportunity to commence treatment with a kidney transplant (pre-emptive transplantation) based on ethnicity. Of the 24 patients who received a kidney transplant, none in 2014 identified as Māori and 1 (0.8%) identified as Pacific ethnicity (Figure 6).
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