Gestational hypertension and preeclampsia in living kidney donors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Young women wishing to become living kidney donors frequently ask whether nephrectomy will affect their future pregnancies.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective cohort study of living kidney donors involving 85 women (131 pregnancies after cohort entry) who were matched in a 1:6 ratio with 510 healthy nondonors from the general population (788 pregnancies after cohort entry). Kidney donations occurred between 1992 and 2009 in Ontario, Canada, with follow-up through linked health care databases until March 2013. Donors and nondonors were matched with respect to age, year of cohort entry, residency (urban or rural), income, number of pregnancies before cohort entry, and the time to the first pregnancy after cohort entry. The primary outcome was a hospital diagnosis

SUBMITTER: Garg AX 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4362716 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature