Impact of race and gender on live kidney donation

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 39-46

  Reeves Daniel, Amber ^a   Adams, P L ^a   Daniel, K ^a   Assimos, D ^a   Westcott, C ^a   Alcorn, S G ^a   Rogers, J ^a   Farney, A C ^a   Stratta, R J ^a   Hartmann, E L ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; Ethnicity; Gender; Live kidney donation; Obesity; Race

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BLOOD GROUP ABO INCOMPATIBILITY; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEMATURIA; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 63549095160     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2008.00898.x     Document Type: Article

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