{"id":331858,"date":"2026-03-16T06:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T06:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/331858\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T06:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T06:07:14","slug":"peterborough-volunteers-wanted-to-become-kidney-health-educators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/331858\/","title":{"rendered":"Peterborough volunteers wanted to become kidney health educators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A charity spokesperson said: &#8220;It&#8217;s not yet fully understood why minority ethnic groups are more at risk of kidney disease, but it could be due in part to high rates of diabetes and high blood pressure in these groups, as these are the most common causes of kidney failure. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;For example, it is known that around twice as many Asian people with type 1 diabetes need dialysis or a transplant (therefore experience kidney failure) compared to white patients.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Religious beliefs, cultural differences, language and mistrust may also be barriers to discussions surrounding medical conditions, treatment choices, and available care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Added to this, its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kidneyresearchuk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Health_Inequalities_lay_report_FINAL_WEB_20190311.pdf\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2024 Time To Act report highlighted, external<\/a> the impact of health inequalities on adults living in areas of high deprivation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The initiative is part of the city-based charity&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kidneyresearchuk.org\/peterborough-project\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peterborough Project, external<\/a>, supported by  the Cambs &amp; Peterborough Combined Authority and Peterborough City Council. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is hoped the project might serve as a pilot for similar schemes across the UK. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A charity spokesperson said: &#8220;It&#8217;s not yet fully understood why minority ethnic groups are more at risk of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-331858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}