Racial variation in medical outcomes among living kidney donors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Data regarding health outcomes among living kidney donors are lacking, especially among nonwhite persons.

Methods

We linked identifiers from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) with administrative data of a private U.S. health insurer and performed a retrospective study of 4650 persons who had been living kidney donors from October 1987 through July 2007 and who had post-donation nephrectomy benefits with this insurer at some point from 2000 through 2007. We ascertained post-nephrectomy medical diagnoses and conditions requiring medical treatment from billing claims. Cox regression analyses with left and right censoring to account for observed periods of insurance benefits were used to estimate absolute prevalence and prevalence ratios for dia

SUBMITTER: Lentine KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3041966 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature