title: Response to Letter Regarding Article, "Association of Race With Mortality and Cardiovascular Events in a Large Cohort of US Veterans".
authors.affiliation: Nephrology Section, Memphis VA Medical Center, Memphis, TN.
authors.forename: Csaba P
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Kovesdy
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
authors.forename: Keith C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Norris
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC.
authors.forename: L Ebony
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Boulware
authors.affiliation: Division of Nephrology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN.
authors.forename: Jun L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
authors.forename: Jennie Z
authors.initials: JZ
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.affiliation: Harold Simmons Center for Chronic Disease Research and Epidemiology, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of California-Irvine, Orange, CA.
authors.forename: Elani
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Streja
authors.affiliation: Division of Nephrology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN.
authors.forename: Miklos Z
authors.initials: MZ
authors.lastname: Molnar
authors.affiliation: Harold Simmons Center for Chronic Disease Research and Epidemiology, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of California-Irvine, Orange, CA.
authors.forename: Kamyar
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kalantar-Zadeh
mesh_terms: D002545:Brain Ischemia / Q000208:ethnology*; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000208:ethnology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D020521:Stroke / Q000208:ethnology*; D014728:Veterans