Sex and Gender Differences in Kidney Transplantation.
Semin Nephrol
; 42(2): 219-229, 2022 03.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1852060
ABSTRACT
Sex and gender often are used interchangeably, but are two distinct entities, with sex being the biological attribute and gender including the social, psychological, and cultural aspects of one's identity. Kidney transplantation has been proven to be the best treatment for end-stage kidney disease, improving both quality of life and life-expectancy for most patients. However, gender disparities in access to and outcomes of kidney transplantation remain despite the plethora of evidence showing the advantages of kidney transplantation to our patients. Data have shown that women are less likely to be waitlisted for a kidney transplant and to receive a deceased donor or a living donor kidney. On the other hand, women are more likely than men to become living kidney donors. Although some state the latter is the result of the female gender to nurture and care for loved ones, others believe this observation is because women often are incompatible with their spouse or child because pregnancy is a strong sensitizing event, which stems from the biological rather than the social differences between the sexes. Influence of sex and gender is not limited to access to kidney transplantation, but rather exist in other areas of transplant medicine, such as the difference observed in transplant outcomes between the sexes, variability in immunosuppression metabolism, and even in more contemporary areas such as recent data showing sex-based differences in outcomes of kidney transplant recipients with coronavirus disease-2019, with males having an increased incidence of acute kidney injury and death.
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International databases
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Kidney Transplantation
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Pregnancy
Language:
English
Journal:
Semin Nephrol
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
J.semnephrol.2022.04.011
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