Gender Disparities in Kidney Transplantation Referral Vary by Age and Race: A Multiregional Cohort Study in the Southeast United States

In the Southeast, women are less likely to be referred for a transplant, and this disparity is specific to older non-Hispanic Black and White women. These findings have important implications for known gender disparities in upstream (i.e., waitlisting) transplant steps and in the design of interventions to reduce gender disparities in transplant.