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NKDEP Launches Spanish Language Initiative
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Brief Description:
The National Kidney Disease Education Program has launched a new Spanish-language initiative which includes a website and brochure highlighting the connection between kidney disease and its primary risk factors-diabetes and hypertension.
Transcript:
Akinso: The National Kidney Disease Education Program has launched a new Spanish-language initiative which includes a website and brochure highlighting the connection between kidney disease and its primary risk factors-diabetes and hypertension. Hispanics are nearly twice as likely to develop kidney failure as whites according to Dr. Josephine Briggs, the Director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease's Division of Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Diseases.
Briggs: Our long-term goal of course would be to see the rates of diabetic kidney disease in Hispanics fall as low as we think they can be as low as they are in Caucasian populations. Our short-term goal is to have more Hispanic people asking their doctor, "Do I need to be tested for this?" So it's an awareness campaign.
Akinso: The website and brochure provide science-based information to people in the Hispanic community at high risk for kidney disease. To view the NKDEP Spanish-language website, and to download or order the brochure, visit www.nkdep.nih.gov/espanol. This is Wally Akinso at the National Institutes of Health Bethesda, Maryland.
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