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Article: African Americans Retain Immune Response While On Immunosuppressive Drugs.
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- Blood Weekly
- Article date:
- April 26, 2001
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2001 APR 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) --
by Sonia Nichols, staff medical writer - Despite the use of immunosuppressive therapies after liver and kidney transplants, African Americans suffer worse graft survival rates than white patients.
In the face of diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, viral hepatitis, and liver cancer, African Americans often require liver or kidney transplants at the same or higher rates than other races. Often these grafts do not fare as well in black patients.
Now, Johns Hopkins researchers in Baltimore, Maryland, point to the inability of standard immunosuppressive therapies to suppress immune response in black ...