Living Donor Smoking Worsens Recipient Survival

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Living Donor Smoking Worsens Recipient Survival

Recipients of kidneys from living donors who smoke have shorter survival than recipients of kidneys from non-smoker living donors, according to a study presented at the American Society of Transplant Surgeons' 2013 Annual State of the Art Winter Symposium.

The discovery of this association suggests that it may be possible to improve survival among kidney transplant recipients by getting living donors who smoke to give up the habit, said Seth Waits, MD, of the University of Michigan Health Systems (UMHS) in Ann Arbor, who presented the results. “When we are talking about deceased donors, obviously, there was no opportunity to have them stop smoking prior to donation.”

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