According to some researchers, a change Medicare policy may create problems for black patients to undergo dialysis.

Under this new policy dialysis units will have to cover injectable medications as well as dialysis under a single payment while previously both these services were reimbursed in separate.

Low hemoglobin or anemia is a more common condition in black kidney patients than the white one and black patients often require treatments with expensive ESAs to enhance the levels of hemoglobin in their blood. A recent study shows that black dialysis patients require nearly 11% higher ESAs dose than the white patients.

A kidney disease caused due to long term diabetes, as 15 years or more, is also known as Kimmelstiel-Wilson syndrome and intercapillary glomerulonephritis. Long term diabetes’ kidney disease regarded as the main cause of dialysis, characterized by nephrotic syndrome.

Generally kidney defects, diseases, and infections are caused in diabetics due to persistent high levels of blood sugar that pass into urine in order to be secreted out. It can be found in both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetics. In Type1 patients, insulin production is diminished, and in Type2 patients, once called non-insulin diabetes mellitus, or adult onset diabetes results as insulin deficiency or insulin resistance.

Uncontrolled sugar levels however are fatal for both types of diabetics. Cardiovascular diseases, impairment of several body organs, muscle weakness, nephropathy, blindness, memory loss, artery diseases, and most commonly heightened healing defects are some of the defects and ailments caused due to excessive hypoglycemia or hyperglycemia.