Sex Differences in Kidney Transplantation: Austria and the United States, 1978-2018.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Systematic analyses about sex differences in wait-listing and kidney transplantation after dialysis initiation are scarce. We aimed at identifying sex-specific disparities along the path of kidney disease treatment, comparing two countries with distinctive health care systems, the US and Austria, over time.

Methods

We analyzed subjects who initiated dialysis from 1979-2018, in observational cohort studies from the US and Austria. We used Cox regression to model male-to-female cause-specific hazard ratios (csHRs, 95% confidence intervals) for transitions along the consecutive states dialysis initiation, wait-listing, kidney transplantation and death, adjusted for age and stratified by country and decade of dialysis initiation.

Results

Among 3,053,206 US and

SUBMITTER: Hodlmoser S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8819173 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature