{"id":2280,"date":"2014-07-09T02:13:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T07:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2280"},"modified":"2014-07-10T02:19:53","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T07:19:53","slug":"kidney-donation-is-safe-for-older-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/kidney-donation-is-safe-for-older-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidney Donation is safe for older adults<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Healthy kidney donors aged 55 years and older enjoy similar longevity and cardiovascular health than similar \u00a0non-donor adults, a new study shows. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The authors matched 3368 American donors to older healthy non-donors and followed them for nearly 8 years between 1996 to 2006 and found out that that donors were not at a higher risk of dying or developing illnesses such as cardiovascular diseases or diabetes. They conclude that older adults who are considering kidney donation should be informed that they aren\u2019t increasing their risk of death or heart disease.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">American Journal of Transplantation<\/span>\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>July 9, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\">Peter P. Reese, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.<\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uwo.ca\/epidem\/people\/Faculty\/CrossAppointAdjunct\/Garg.html\" target=\"_blank\">Amit Garg<\/a>, University of Western Ontario, Ontario<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Healthy kidney donors aged 55 years and older enjoy similar longevity and cardiovascular health than similar \u00a0non-donor adults, a new study shows. The authors matched 3368 American donors to older healthy non-donors and followed them for nearly 8 years between 1996 to 2006 and found out that that donors were not at a higher risk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1123,51,53,50,1889,476],"class_list":["post-2280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-aging","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-ontario","tag-organ-donation","tag-public-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-AM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2283,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions\/2283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}