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THURSDAY, Oct. 24, 2019 (HealthDay News) — Fewer women than men receive kidney replacement therapy (KRT), according to a large European study published online Oct. 24 in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Marlies Antlanger, M.D., from the Medical University of Vienna, and colleagues used data from nine countries reporting to the European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association Registry (1965 to 2015) to assess sex-specific differences in KRT incidence and prevalence among 230,378 KRT patients (38 percent women).<\/p>\n
The researchers found that for all KRT modalities (hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, and kidney transplantation), the incidence and prevalence rates were consistently higher in men than women. KRT incidence increased from 8 per million population (pmp) in 1965-1974 to 98 pmp in 2005-2015 in women versus 12 pmp to 173 pmp in men during the same time period. Despite marked changes in primary kidney disease, the male-to-female ratios for incident and prevalent KRT patients consistently increased with age over decades and for individual countries. The male-to-female ratio was markedly higher for kidney transplantation in patients with diabetes versus those without diabetes.<\/p>\n
“The relative difference between men and women initiating and undergoing KRT has remained consistent over the last five decades and in all studied countries,” the authors write.<\/p>\n
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