African Americans also develop kidney failure at an earlier age than white Americans. In 2006, the mean age for African-Americans at the start of treatment for kidney failure was 56.4 years, compared with 59.6 in white Americans.
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African Americans constitute about 32 percent of all patients treated for kidney failure in the U.S., but only about 12 percent of the overall U.S. population.