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    Chronic kidney disease in African Americans: Puzzle pieces are falling into place
    Joseph V. Nally, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2017, 84 (11) 855-862; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84gr.17007

    African Americans are disproportionately affected; genetic variants in APOL1 provide an important explanation.

  • Disparities in cervical cancer in African American women: What primary care physicians can do
    Cynthia Arvizo, MD and Haider Mahdi, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2017, 84 (10) 788-794; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.15115

    African American women are disproportionately affected, but equal access to care may eliminate most of the disparity.

  • Gout and African Americans: Reducing disparities
    Bharat Kumar, MD and Petar Lenert, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2016, 83 (9) 665-673; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.15133

    African Americans are more likely to suffer from gout and are less likely to receive optimal treatment for it.

  • Genitourinary manifestations of sickle cell disease
    Surafel Gebreselassie, MD, Matthew N. Simmons, MD, PhD and Drogo K. Montague, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2015, 82 (10) 679-683; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.82a.14029

    Sickling can lead to nephropathy, priapism, papillary necrosis, and renal medullary carcinoma.