Published 14 January 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b98
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;338:b98

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Older US women are less likely than men to get kidney transplants

Janice Hopkins Tanne

1 New York

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Women in the United States with end stage renal disease are just as likely as men to receive kidney transplants—but only until the age of 45. Older women and women with comorbidities are less likely to receive transplants than men of the same age or men with similar comorbidities, a new study shows, despite the fact that they have a similar or better survival benefit from a transplant.

Dorry Segev, assistant professor of surgery and director of clinical research for transplant surgery at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and colleagues reported their study in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (doi:10.1681/ASN.2008060591).

They reviewed 563 197 patients with end stage kidney disease, of whom 81 301 (14.4%) joined the deceased donor waiting list and 9359 (1.7%) received a transplant from a living donor without ever joining the waiting list. Of those who never had access to . . . [Full text of this article]


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