Self-Reported Incident Hypertension and Long-Term Kidney Function in Living Kidney Donors Compared with Healthy Nondonors.
Courtenay M HolscherChristine E HaugenKyle R JacksonJacqueline M Garonzik WangMadeleine M WaldramSunjae BaeJayme E LockeRhiannon D ReedKrista L LentineGaurav GuptaMatthew R WeirJohn J FriedewaldJennifer VerbeseyMatthew CooperKrista L LentineAllan B MassiePublished in: Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN (2019)
Kidney donors are at higher risk of hypertension than similar healthy nondonors, regardless of race. Donors who developed hypertension had a plateau in the usual postdonation increase of eGFR.