Does Sex, Race, and the Size of a Kidney Transplant Candidate's Social Network Affect the Number of Living Donor Requests? A Multicenter Social Network Analysis of Patients on the Kidney Transplant Waitlist.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A kidney transplant candidate's social network serves as a pool of potential living donors. Sex and racial differences in network size, network strength, and living donor requests may contribute to disparities in living donor kidney transplantation.

Methods

In this multicenter cross-sectional study, we performed an egocentric network analysis via a telephone survey of 132 waitlisted candidates (53% female and 69% Black) to identify demographic and network factors associated with requesting living kidney donations.

Results

Female participants made requests to more network members than male participants: incidence rate ratio (IRR) 1.95, 95% confidence interval (CI) [1.24-3.06], P < 0.01. Black participants tended to make more requests than whites (IRR 1.65, 9

SUBMITTER: Gillespie A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8855970 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature