Volume : VII, Issue : IV, April - 2018
Gender Differences in Survival Duration Following Liver transplantation
Steven Thurber, William Meller, Sheila Specker
Abstract :
Possible disparities between men and women with respect to post liver transplant survival were investigated in a twenty–two year study with 489
male and 258 female patients. The guiding hypothesis was that estrogen levels in women facilitate prolonged survival durations compared to those
of men but that this protection may wane with age and reduced estrogen resulting from menopause. Kaplan–Meier survival analysis supported
longer survival rates by females. Median duration values were 123 and 160 months respectively. Furthermore, Cox regression procedures
corroborated these findings with the control of age at the time of transplantation. The related hazard ratio indicated that male gender was associated
with a 64% increase in the probability of post–transplant death.
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DOI : 10.36106/ijsr
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Steven Thurber, William Meller, Sheila Specker, Gender Differences in Survival Duration Following Liver transplantation, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-4 | April-2018
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Steven Thurber, William Meller, Sheila Specker, Gender Differences in Survival Duration Following Liver transplantation, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-4 | April-2018
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