A study published in Transplantation reports that long-term kidney graft survival rates are lower in the USA than they are in Europe. Gondos and colleagues compared graft survival at 1 year, 5 years and 10 years in Europeans and white, African and Hispanic Americans. Although 1-year graft survival rates were similar, 5-year and 10-year graft survival rates for deceased donor grafts were higher in Europeans than in any of the three US populations studied.
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Gondos, A. et al. Kidney graft survival in Europe and the United States: strikingly different long-term outcomes. Transplantation doi:10.1097/TP.0b013e3182708ea8
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Comparing kidney graft survival: Europe versus the USA. Nat Rev Nephrol 8, 683 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrneph.2012.235
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nrneph.2012.235