Consistency of Racial Variation in Medical Outcomes Among Publicly and Privately Insured Living Kidney Donors

BACKGROUND: Racial disparities in health outcomes after living donation have been reported, but generalizability is not known. METHODS: We linked Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) registry data for 4,007 living kidney donors in 1987 to 2008 with Medicare billing claims (2000-2008). Cox regression with left and right censoring was used to estimate the frequencies and relative risks of postdonation medical diagnoses according …