Table 3.
Distribution of race and ethnicity in US trials
| Category | White N=25,415 Trials=51 |
Black N=11,113 Trials=49 |
Asian N=782 Trials=27 |
AI/AN N=64 Trials=12 |
NH/PI N=23 Trials=7 |
Other race N=1589 Trials=39 |
Hispanic N=4406 Trials=27 |
Non-Hispanic N=30,465 Trials=27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publication category | ||||||||
| 2000–2006 | 2905 (58) | 1792 (35) | 191 (4) | 18 (0) | 2 (0) | 132 (3) | 475 (12) | 3452 (88) |
| 2007–2011 | 2919 (51) | 2435 (43) | 17 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 350 (6) | 328 (10) | 2852 (90) |
| 2012–2016 | 6306 (71) | 2097 (24) | 175 (2) | 4 (0) | 11 (0) | 266 (3) | 852 (10) | 7352 (90) |
| 2017–2021 | 13,285 (69) | 4789 (25) | 399 (2) | 42 (0) | 10 (0) | 841 (4) | 2751 (7) | 17,481 (93) |
| Trial category | ||||||||
| AKI | 6998 (73) | 1853 (19) | 177 (2) | 14 (0) | 7 (0) | 577 (6) | 809 (8) | 9134 (92) |
| CKD | 8050 (69) | 3049 (26) | 177 (1) | 24 (0) | 5 (0) | 382 (4) | 1898 (16) | 9542 (84) |
| GN | 91 (51) | 79 (44) | 8 (4) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 28 (20) | 112 (80) |
| HD/PD | 6230 (53) | 4645 (40) | 383 (3) | 11 (0) | 0 (0) | 411 (4) | 1104 (12) | 8391 (88) |
| Transplant | 4046 (70) | 1487 (26) | 37 (0) | 15 (0) | 11 (0) | 219 (4) | 567 (12) | 3958 (88) |
| Intervention | ||||||||
| Care delivery | 12,585 (22) | 4548 (25) | 412 (2) | 0 (0) | 7 (0) | 753 (4) | 1976 (10) | 17,780 (90) |
| Dialysis | 1592 (53) | 1335 (44) | 54 (2) | 11 (0) | 0 (0) | 33 (1) | 185 (6) | 2784 (94) |
| Drug | 11,179 (64) | 5216 (30) | 316 (2) | 37 (0) | 16 (0) | 776 (4) | 2226 (17) | 10,492 (83) |
| Procedure/surgery | 59 (59) | 14 (14) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 27 (27) | 19 (19) | 81 (81) |
Additional demographic data were obtained from authors when primary race categories were incompletely reported in the original publication. HD, hemodialysis; PD, peritoneal dialysis.