Black and Hispanic living kidney donors are at increased relative risk for hypertension, diabetes requiring drug therapy, and CKD compared with their white counterparts, according to researchers.
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Krista L. Lentine, MD, of Saint Louis University School of Medicine, and colleagues reviewed data from 4,650 individuals who had been living kidney donors from October 2987 through July 2007. The researchers linked identifiers from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network with administrative data of a private U.S. health insurer.
The investigators determined post-nephrectomy medical diagnoses and conditions requiring medical treatment from billing claims.
The study population was 76.3% white, 13.1% black, 8.2% Hispanic, and 2.4% other. The median time from donation to the end of insurance benefits was 7.7 years.
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SOURCE: Renal and Urology News
