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Area of Science:

  • Nephrology
  • Transplantation
  • Health Equity

Background:

  • Sex/gender disparities in kidney transplantation access persist.
  • The role of preemptive referral in these inequities is not fully understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if preemptive referral rates differ by sex/gender.
  • To examine the impact of preemptive referral on waitlisting and living donor transplant outcomes by sex/gender.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of adult patients initiating kidney replacement therapy in the Southeast US (2015-2019).
  • Linking USRDS data with E-STAR for preemptive referral and transplant outcomes.
  • Logistic and Cox-proportional hazard models to assess sex/gender associations.

Main Results:

  • Similar preemptive referral rates for men and women (OR: 0.99).
  • No sex/gender differences in waitlisting among preemptively referred patients (HR: 0.97).
  • Preemptively referred women were 25% less likely to receive a living donor transplant (HR: 0.75).

Conclusions:

  • Preemptive referral is equitable by sex/gender and partially mitigates waitlisting disparities.
  • Sex/gender inequities persist in living donor kidney transplantation.
  • Preemptively referred women had better health profiles than men, yet lower living donor transplant rates.