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This study aimed to examine the association between ethnicity and area-level deprivation and the rates of transition between treatment modalities and death across the patient life course on KRT.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"sec002\">\n                    <jats:title>Methods and findings<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We used a parametric multistate model to analyse UK Renal Registry data from 93,451 patients initiating KRT in England between 2005 and 2020 with a median follow-up of 1,497 days [IQR: 640\u22122,841] (4.1 years [IQR: 1.75,7.8]). We estimated transition-specific hazard rates and probabilities between peritoneal dialysis (PD), home haemodialysis (HHD), in-centre haemodialysis (ICHD), transplantation, and death using Weibull proportional hazard models. Ethnicity and area-level deprivation (measured by quintiles of the Index of Multiple Deprivation [IMD]) were included as covariates of primary interest, with models additionally adjusted for sex, age and diabetes mellitus as the primary kidney disease (PKD). Compared with White patients, Asian patients had lower transition rates from ICHD to PD (hazard ratio [HR]: 0.68, 95% confidence interval [CI] [0.51,0.91]), and from PD to ICHD (HR 0.85, 95% CI [0.78,0.92]), but a higher rate of returning to ICHD after transplantation (HR 1.12, 95% CI [1.01,1.24]). Black patients also had lower transition rates from ICHD to PD (HR 0.64, 95% CI [0.47,0.88]) and to HHD (HR 0.47, 95% CI [0.37,0.61]), but higher rates of transition from PD to ICHD (HR 1.16, 95% CI [1.01,1.33]) and from transplantation to ICHD (HR 1.73, 95% CI [1.44,2.08]). Patients living in the most deprived areas had lower transition rates from ICHD to PD (HR 0.63, 95% CI [0.56,0.70]), to HHD (HR 0.49, 95% CI [0.38,0.64]), and to transplantation (HR 0.57, 95% CI [0.52,0.64]), and higher rates from transplantation to ICHD (HR 1.63, 95% CI [1.43,1.85]) and to death (HR 1.53, 95% CI [1.33,1.76]), compared with those from the least deprived areas. A limitation of our study is that, apart from diabetes mellitus as the PKD, comorbidities were not included in the analysis due to incomplete reporting in the UK Renal Registry. This should be considered when interpreting the observed disparities, particularly those related to area-level deprivation.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"sec003\">\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>These findings highlight persistent inequalities throughout the KRT pathway. 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