The healthy donor effect and survey participation, becoming a donor and donor career.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The healthy donor effect (HDE) is a selection bias caused by the health criteria blood donors must meet. It obscures investigations of beneficial/adverse health effects of blood donation and complicates the generalizability of findings from blood donor cohorts. To further characterize the HDE we investigated how self-reported health and lifestyle are associated with becoming a blood donor, lapsing, and donation intensity. Furthermore, we examined differences in mortality based on donor status.

Study design and methods

The Danish National Health Survey was linked to the Scandinavian Donations and Transfusions (SCANDAT) database and Danish register data. Logistic- and normal regression was used to compare baseline characteristics and participation. Poisson regressio

SUBMITTER: Brodersen T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10107247 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature