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How the Changing Health Care Environment Will Exacerbate the Nephrology Workforce Crisis
Rachel Shaffer and Mark G. Parker

As is the case with many chronic diseases in the United States, chronic kidney disease (CKD) is on the rise. The recent recognition of CKD as a public health problem may be driving patients to nephrologists at earlier stages. At least 26 million Americans have some stage of CKD (Figure 3.1), and minority populations are disproportionately affected. Minorities constitute an increasingly greater portion of the United States population, and incident rates of end stage renal disease (ESRD) among African Americans and Hispanics are nearly four times and 1.5 times greater, respectively, than in whites.

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