HHS Funding Cuts and Layoffs Raise Concern in the Kidney Community

2024, looking for potential environmental and structural factors, such as air pollution, water quality, healthy food access, and over-the-counter medications, that accelerate kidney diseases in a diverse population of US individuals with the apolipoprotein 1 (APOL1) genetic variant.The APOL1 genetic variant is more common among people of African ancestry but occurs across races and ethnicities."These are all factors that seem in accordance with the Make America Healthy Again initiatives," said Mohottige, who is an assistant professor at the Institute for Health Equity Research at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City and a staff nephrologist at the James J. Peters Department of