Risk of end-stage renal disease following live kidney donation.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Risk of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in kidney donors has been compared with risk faced by the general population, but the general population represents an unscreened, high-risk comparator. A comparison to similarly screened healthy nondonors would more properly estimate the sequelae of kidney donation.

Objectives

To compare the risk of ESRD in kidney donors with that of a healthy cohort of nondonors who are at equally low risk of renal disease and free of contraindications to live donation and to stratify these comparisons by patient demographics.

Design, settings, and participants

A cohort of 96,217 kidney donors in the United States between April 1994 and November 2011 and a cohort of 20,024 participants of the Third National Health and Nutrition Exami

SUBMITTER: Muzaale AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4411956 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature