%0 Journal Article %T Self-rated Health and Mortality due to Kidney Diseases: Racial Differences in the United States %A Shervin Assari %J Archive of "Advanced Biomedical Research". %D 2018 %R 10.4103/2277-9175.223738 %X Although the role of self-rated health (SRH) on all-cause mortality is known, we still do not know whether SRH predicts death due to specific causes (e.g., kidney disease). The current study aimed to compare Blacks and Whites on the association between SRH and mortality due to kidney diseases. A nationally representative sample of adults in the United States was used to provide generalizable results to the United States population %K African Americans %K death %K ethnic groups %K kidney diseases %K population groups %K self-rated health %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5812104/