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Long-term risk for kidney donors with hypertension at donation - a retrospective cohort study.
Transplant International 2019 September
In the general population, small increases in blood pressure are associated with increased mortality. In kidney donors this association is less certain. We therefore assessed long-term overall and cardiovascular mortality in donors who were hypertensive at the time of donation compared with normotensive donors. Hypertension was defined as blood pressure >140/90 mmHg or use of antihypertensive drugs. Adequate records available in 2131 donors revealed that 140 were hypertensive and 1991 were normotensive. Multivariable regression analyses were performed for overall and cardiovascular mortality. Hypertensive donors were significantly older (mean 57.7 vs. 46.9 years), more were males (44.3% vs. 41.5%), had higher body mass index (26.4 vs. 24.7) and lower estimated glomerular filtration rate (91.8 vs. 101.2 ml/min/1.73 m2 ). After a median observation time of 20.8 years (interquartile range 11) 71 hypertensive donors had died and 26 of the deaths were cardiovascular. Multivariable analysis did not suggest a generalizable association between hypertension and long-term overall mortality [hazard ratio (HR) 1.1, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.9-1.5, P = 0.34] or cardiovascular mortality (HR 1.1, 95% CI 0.7-1.8, P = 0.55). These data may support the use of older healthy kidney donors with hypertension at donation.
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