Journal article
Cardiovascular Disease and Hypertension Risk in Living Kidney Donors: An Analysis of Health Administrative Data in Ontario, Canada
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Knowledge of any harm associated with living kidney donation guides informed consent and living donor follow-up. Risk estimates in the literature are variable, and most studies did not use a healthy control group to assess outcomes attributable to donation.
METHODS: We observed a retrospective cohort using health administrative data for donations which occurred in Ontario, Canada between the years 1993 and 2005. There were a total …
Authors
Garg AX; Prasad GVR; Thiessen-Philbrook HR; Ping L; Melo M; Gibney EM; Knoll G; Karpinski M; Parikh CR; Gill J
Journal
Transplantation, Vol. 86, No. 3, pp. 399–406
Publisher
Wolters Kluwer
Publication Date
August 15, 2008
DOI
10.1097/tp.0b013e31817ba9e3
ISSN
0041-1337