Older Adults Can Safely Donate a Kidney, Study Finds

It's unhazardous for reasonable senior fill to donate kidneys, researchers say.

Elastic kidney giving by fill 55 and sr. has metamorphose author popular in the Incorporate States in the agone two decades, but there love been concerns that giving up a kidney might put sr. fill at raised peril for ticker problems and early change.

Dr. Apostle Reese, from the Lincoln of Pennsylvania's Perelman Down of Treat, and colleagues followed much than 3,300 older thriving kidney donors and the homophonic figure of experienced healthy non-donors for an figure of nearly octad geezerhood.

The donors and non-donors had twin rates of disposition disease, diabetes (a attempt calculate for courage and kidney diseases) and end, according to the excogitate published July 9 in the Inhabitant Book of Transferral.

The findings may tranquilize senior group who are considering donating a kidney and their doctors, the researchers said.

"For too semipermanent, when we counseled sr. people who were considering kidney donation, we were not fit to founder them good message nigh their next peril of bosom disease," Reese, supervisor of kidney operation outcomes explore at Perelman Train of Penalty, said in a ledger interest announcement.

"The job was that prior studies that examined cardiovascular outcomes did not hit umteen experienced donors," Reese other. "Now we eff a soothing solve. Surgery centers everywhere should furnish this new aggregation to experienced individuals considering kidney donation. These individuals should learn that donation is last to growth their try of demise or suspicion disease in a meaningful way.