Gender Differences in Medication Adherence Among Adolescent and Young Adult Kidney Transplant Recipients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Among kidney transplant recipients, gender differences in medication adherence may contribute to higher graft failure risks observed in girls and young women compared with boys and young men. Our aim was to determine whether adherence differs by gender, and whether gender differences vary by age in adolescent and young adult kidney transplant recipients.

Methods

We examined data from the 3-month run-in period (no intervention) of the randomized Teen Adherence in Kidney transplant Effectiveness of Intervention trial. Adherence was monitored using electronic pillboxes in 136 patients (11-24 y) followed in 8 transplant centers in Canada and the United States. We used ordinal logistic regression with generalized estimating equations to estimate the association between

SUBMITTER: Boucquemont J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6326890 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature