Sex matters: COVID-19 in kidney transplantation

Amanda J Vinson; Anita S Chong; Deborah Clegg; Christine Falk; Bethany J Foster; Anne Halpin; Roslyn B Mannon; Biff F Palmer; Sabine Oertelt-Prigione; Lori J West; Germaine Wong; Ruth Sapir-Pichhadze

doi:10.1016/j.kint.2020.12.020

Sex matters: COVID-19 in kidney transplantation

Kidney Int. 2021 Mar;99(3):555-558. doi: 10.1016/j.kint.2020.12.020. Epub 2021 Jan 5.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Nova Scotia Health Authority, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
² Department: Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
³ College of Nursing and Health Professionals, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁴ Institute of Transplant Immunology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
⁵ Department of Pediatrics, Montreal Children's Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
⁶ Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Department of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Alberta Precision Laboratories, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Alberta Transplant Institute, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
⁷ Department of Medicine/Nephrology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
⁸ Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.
⁹ Department of Primary and Community Care, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
¹⁰ Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Alberta Transplant Institute, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Department of Pediatrics and Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Department of Medical Microbiology/Immunology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Department of Laboratory Medicine/Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
¹¹ School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
¹² Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Centre for Outcomes Research, Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Electronic address: ruth.sapir-pichhadze@mcgill.ca.

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; gender; sex; transplantation.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

COVID-19 / diagnosis
COVID-19 / immunology
COVID-19 / mortality*
COVID-19 / therapy
Clinical Trials as Topic / standards
Comorbidity
Female
Humans
Kidney Failure, Chronic / complications
Kidney Failure, Chronic / immunology*
Kidney Failure, Chronic / mortality
Kidney Failure, Chronic / therapy
Kidney Transplantation / adverse effects*
Male
Observational Studies as Topic / standards
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Renal Dialysis / adverse effects
Research Design / standards
Risk Factors
SARS-CoV-2 / immunology*
SARS-CoV-2 / isolation & purification
SARS-CoV-2 / pathogenicity
Severity of Illness Index
Survival Rate