MedicalResearch.com Interview with:
Dr Hallvard Holdaas
Consultant in Nephrology
Department of Transplant Medicine
Oslo University Hospital
Rikshospitalet, Oslo Norway.
M
edical Research: What are the main findings of the study?
Dr. Holdaas: Most studies examining long-term risk for living kidney donors have included comparators from the background population with hypertension, diabetes mellitus, reduced renal function, cancer and other concomitant diseases; or for the few studies with more “healthy” comparators the follow-up time have been restricted. In our study we compared living donors to a healthy non-donor population which would have qualified as donors themselves, with median follow-up of 15.1 years for the donors. The relative risk for the living donors compared to a healthy control was 11.38 for endstage renal disease (ESRD), 1.4 for cardiovascular death and 1.3 for all-cause mortality (Mjoen et al., 2014).
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