Gender Disparities in Access to Pediatric Renal Transplantation in Europe: Data From the ESPN/ERA-EDTA Registry

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00064203:_____/16:10364022

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajt.13723" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajt.13723</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajt.13723" target="_blank" >10.1111/ajt.13723</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Gender Disparities in Access to Pediatric Renal Transplantation in Europe: Data From the ESPN/ERA-EDTA Registry

Original language description

Inequalities between genders in access to transplantation have been demonstrated. We aimed to validate this gender inequality in a large pediatric population and to investigate its causes. This cohort study included 6454 patients starting renal replacement therapy before 18 years old, in 35 countries participating in the European Society for Paediatric Nephrology/European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association Registry. We used cumulative incidence competing risk and proportional hazards frailty models to study the time to receive a transplant and hierarchical logistic regression to investigate access to preemptive transplantation. Girls had a slower access to renal transplantation because of a 23% lower probability of receiving preemptive transplantation. We found a longer follow-up time before renal replacement therapy in boys compared with girls despite a similar estimated glomerular filtration rate at first appointment. Girls tend to progress faster toward end-stage renal disease than boys, which may contribute to a shorter time available for pretransplantation workup. Overall, medical factors explained only 70% of the gender difference. In Europe, girls have less access to preemptive transplantation for reasons that are only partially related to medical factors. Nonmedical factors such as patient motivation and parent and physician attitudes toward transplantation and organ donation may contribute to this inequality. Our study should raise awareness for the management of girls with renal diseases. This large European study finds an association between female gender and a delay in access to renal transplantation in children, explained by a lower rate of pre-emptive transplantation in girls, and explores other potential explanations for this gender inequality.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30217 - Urology and nephrology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

American Journal of Transplantation

ISSN

1600-6135

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

7

Country of publishing house

DK - DENMARK

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

2097-2105

UT code for WoS article

000379727800019

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84976464990