{"id":4368,"date":"2019-01-11T10:15:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T15:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=4368"},"modified":"2019-01-11T10:15:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T15:15:21","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-emergency-department-visits-made-by-patients-with-chronic-kidney-disease-among-persons-aged-18-years-or-older-by-race-ethnicity-and-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2019\/01\/11\/4368\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Emergency Department Visits Made by Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease Among Persons Aged 18 Years or Older, by Race\/Ethnicity and Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/68\/wr\/mm6801a7.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/68\/wr\/figures\/mm6801a7-F.gif\" width=\"448\" height=\"271\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During 2015\u20132016, 3.5% of adult visits to the emergency department were made by those with chronic kidney disease.<\/p>\n<p>A higher percentage of visits were made by men with chronic kidney disease than women (4.1% compared with 2.7%).<\/p>\n<p>The same pattern was observed for non-Hispanic black men (5.0%) and women (2.4%).<\/p>\n<p>Although the pattern was similar, there was no statistically significant difference in emergency department visits by sex for Hispanic and non-Hispanic white adults.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SOURCE:<\/strong>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 2015\u20132016.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/68\/wr\/mm6801a7.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/68\/wr\/mm6801a7.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During 2015\u20132016, 3.5% of adult visits to the emergency department were made by those with chronic kidney disease. A higher percentage of visits were made by men with chronic kidney disease than women (4.1% compared with 2.7%). The same pattern was observed for non-Hispanic black men (5.0%) and women (2.4%). Although the pattern was similar,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61990,63651,63690,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}