Open AccessNeighborhood Poverty and Sex Differences in Live Donor Kidney Transplant Outcomes in the United States
Author(s) -
Tanjala S. Purnell,
Xiaobin Luo,
Deidra C. Crews,
Sunjae Bae,
Jessica M. Ruck,
Lisa A. Cooper,
Morgan E. Grams,
Macey L. Henderson,
Madeleine M. Waldram,
Morgan Johnson,
Dorry L. Segev
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.45
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1534-6080
pISSN - 0041-1337
DOI - 10.1097/tp.0000000000002654
Subject(s) - hazard ratio , poverty , medicine , confidence interval , demography , proportional hazards model , kidney transplantation , live donor , kidney disease , gerontology , transplantation , political science , sociology , law
Neighborhood poverty has been associated with worse outcomes after live donor kidney transplantation (LDKT), and prior work suggests that women with kidney disease may be more susceptible to the negative influence of poverty than men. As such, our goal was to examine whether poverty differentially affects women in influencing LDKT outcomes.