Kidney Donation Appears Safe for Healthy Older Adults

In a study of 3368 older kidney donors who were matched 1:1 to older healthy nondonors and followed for a median of 7.8 years, mortality rates did not differ between donors and matched pairs. Among donors with Medicare, death or cardiovascular disease rates were similar between donors and nondonors. Donors also did not have an elevated risk of diabetes compared with matched nondonors. Thefindings are published in the American Journal of Transplantation.