{"id":71440,"date":"2025-02-02T13:21:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T13:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=71440"},"modified":"2025-02-02T13:21:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T13:21:47","slug":"kidneys-from-black-donors-are-more-likely-to-be-thrown-away-%e2%88%92-a-bioethicist-explains-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/02\/kidneys-from-black-donors-are-more-likely-to-be-thrown-away-%e2%88%92-a-bioethicist-explains-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidneys from Black donors are more likely to be thrown away \u2212 a bioethicist explains why"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/BB1oRn79.img?w=500&amp;h=514&amp;m=6\" alt=\"An image of a cross section of a kidney showing the major blood vessels.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As one of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/fastats\/kidney-disease.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">leading causes of death<\/a> in the U.S., kidney disease is a serious public health problem. The disease is particularly severe among Black Americans who are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kidney.org\/content\/black-health-ny#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">three times more likely<\/a> than white Americans to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/health\/other\/kidneys-from-black-donors-are-more-likely-to-be-thrown-away-a-bioethicist-explains-why\/ar-BB1oZUwD?ocid=BingNewsSerp&amp;cvid=c0181ffcf7df4abba6fa00d044b17cd3&amp;ei=21\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>As one of the\u00a0leading causes of death in the U.S., kidney disease is a serious public health problem. The disease is particularly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-71440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/kidney-transplant.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71441,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71440\/revisions\/71441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}