A scoping review of inequities in access to organ transplant in the United States

C Park, MM Jones, S Kaplan, FL Koller… - International journal for …, 2022 - Springer
Background Organ transplant is the preferred treatment for end-stage organ disease, yet the
majority of patients with end-stage organ disease are never placed on the transplant waiting …

Sex and gender disparities in the epidemiology and outcomes of chronic kidney disease

JJ Carrero, M Hecking, NC Chesnaye… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Improved understanding of sex and gender-specific differences in the aetiology,
mechanisms and epidemiology of chronic kidney disease (CKD) could help nephrologists …

Social determinants of health and race disparities in kidney transplant

H Wesselman, CG Ford, Y Leyva, X Li… - Clinical Journal of the …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Results Even after accounting for social determinants of health, Black patients had a lower
likelihood of kidney transplant (subdistribution hazard ratio, 0.74; 95% confidence interval …

Association of race and ethnicity with live donor kidney transplantation in the United States from 1995 to 2014

TS Purnell, X Luo, LA Cooper, AB Massie, LM Kucirka… - Jama, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Over the past 2 decades, there has been increased attention and effort to reduce
disparities in live donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) for black, Hispanic, and Asian …

[HTML][HTML] Risk of ESRD in prior living kidney donors

JL Wainright, AM Robinson, AR Wilk… - American Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
We studied End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) in living kidney donors (LKDs) who donated
in the United States between 1994 and 2016 (n= 123 526), using Organ Procurement and …

[HTML][HTML] Racial/ethnic disparities in waitlisting for deceased donor kidney transplantation 1 year after implementation of the new national kidney allocation system

X Zhang, TA Melanson, LC Plantinga, M Basu… - American Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
The impact of a new national kidney allocation system (KAS) on access to the national
deceased-donor waiting list (waitlisting) and racial/ethnic disparities in waitlisting among US …

Barriers to living donor kidney transplantation in the United Kingdom: a national observational study

DA Wu, ML Robb, CJE Watson… - Nephrology Dialysis …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Background. Living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) provides more timely access to
transplantation and better clinical outcomes than deceased donor kidney transplantation …

Health disparities in kidney transplantation for African Americans

K Harding, TB Mersha, PT Pham… - American journal of …, 2017 - karger.com
Background: The persistent challenges of bridging healthcare disparities for African
Americans (AAs) in need of kidney transplantation continue to be unresolved at the national …

Pregnancy-induced sensitization promotes sex disparity in living donor kidney transplantation

B Bromberger, D Spragan, S Hashmi… - Journal of the …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
The presence of sex disparity in living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) remains
controversial. To determine if women fall behind men in LDKT evaluation, we performed an …

Sex and gender disparities in living kidney donation: a scoping review

E Vilayur, A van Zwieten, M Chen, A Francis… - Transplantation …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Background. Women are more likely than men to be living kidney donors. We summarized
the evidence concerning the reasons behind sex and gender disparities in living kidney …