Journal article
Kidney-Failure Risk Projection for the Living Kidney-Donor Candidate
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Evaluation of candidates to serve as living kidney donors relies on screening for individual risk factors for end-stage renal disease (ESRD). To support an empirical approach to donor selection, we developed a tool that simultaneously incorporates multiple health characteristics to estimate a person's probable long-term risk of ESRD if that person does not donate a kidney.
METHODS: We used risk associations from a meta-analysis of …
Authors
Grams ME; Sang Y; Levey AS; Matsushita K; Ballew S; Chang AR; Chow EKH; Kasiske BL; Kovesdy CP; Nadkarni GN
Journal
The New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 374, No. 5, pp. 411–421
Publisher
Massachusetts Medical Society
Publication Date
February 4, 2016
DOI
10.1056/nejmoa1510491
ISSN
0028-4793