Anaemia is common after kidney transplantation, especially among African Americans

Background. Anaemia is a major cardiovascular risk factor in renal disease. It might be appropriate to extrapolate this association of anaemia with cardiovascular disease to renal transplant recipients who continue to have a significant cardiovascular risk. There are very few studies addressing the...

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Published in:Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation dialysis, transplantation, 2004-09, Vol.19 (9), p.2368-2373
Main Authors: Shibagaki, Yugo, Shetty, Anupkumar
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
African American race
African Americans - statistics & numerical data
Aged
anaemia
Anemia - diagnosis
Anemia - epidemiology
Anemia - ethnology
Anemia - etiology
Anesthesia. Intensive care medicine. Transfusions. Cell therapy and gene therapy
Biological and medical sciences
Blood. Blood coagulation. Reticuloendothelial system
Cardiovascular Diseases - epidemiology
Cardiovascular Diseases - etiology
Emergency and intensive care: renal failure. Dialysis management
Female
Humans
Intensive care medicine
Kidney Failure, Chronic - complications
Kidney Failure, Chronic - therapy
kidney transplantation
Kidney Transplantation - adverse effects
Male
Medical sciences
Michigan - epidemiology
Middle Aged
multivariate analysis
Pharmacology. Drug treatments
Prevalence
Risk Factors
Surgery (general aspects). Transplantations, organ and tissue grafts. Graft diseases
Surgery of the urinary system
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Summary:Background. Anaemia is a major cardiovascular risk factor in renal disease. It might be appropriate to extrapolate this association of anaemia with cardiovascular disease to renal transplant recipients who continue to have a significant cardiovascular risk. There are very few studies addressing the issue of anaemia after renal transplantation. Methods. We studied 192 consecutive kidney transplant recipients over a 5-year period in a tertiary referral centre in Michigan, USA. Patients who were followed up at the ambulatory transplant clinic for at least 1 year after transplantation were studied. Haemoglobin (Hb) level at 6 months and 1 year after renal transplantation was recorded. Risk factors for anaemia were evaluated using multivariate regression analysis. Results. Significant anaemia (Hb
ISSN:0931-0509
1460-2385
DOI:10.1093/ndt/gfh256