Effect of Smoking on Kidney Transplant Outcomes: Analysis of the United States Renal Data System: Background. We investigated the effect of smoking on postkidney transplant outcomes in the United States Renal Data System.
Methods. In a retrospective cohort of 41,705 adult Medicare primary renal transplant recipients in the United States Renal Data System database transplanted from January 1, 2000, to June 30, 2006, and followed through October 31, 2006, we assessed Medicare claims for smoking. The association between renal allograft loss and death and smoking as a time-dependent variable was assessed with Cox nonproportional hazards regression.
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