Gender imbalance among donors in living kidney transplantation: the Norwegian experience
| Autor: | Ingrid Os, Per Fauchald, Per Pfeffer, Cecilia Montgomery Oien, Anna Varberg Reisæter, Torbjørn Leivestad |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty medicine.medical_treatment Norwegian chemistry.chemical_compound Sex Factors Internal medicine Living Donors Humans Medicine Kidney transplantation Transplantation Creatinine Kidney Norway business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) Middle Aged medicine.disease Kidney Transplantation language.human_language Surgery medicine.anatomical_structure chemistry Nephrology language Female Hemodialysis business Kidney disease |
| Zdroj: | Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation. 20:783-789 |
| ISSN: | 1460-2385 0931-0509 |
| Popis: | Background. In living donor (LD) kidney transplantation, a predominance of female-to-male donations has been observed. Gender demographics of living donors and outcomes of LD kidney transplantations in Norway were assessed, as this has not been explored previously. Methods. Data from the Norwegian Renal Registry of first LD kidney transplantations (n ¼ 1319) in the period 1985–2002 were used. Results. The majority of all LD was female (57.8%; P |
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