Does male sex increase the risk of mortality and CKD progression compared to female sex?
In a Swedish nationwide study, men demonstrated higher rates of cardiovascular and all-cause mortality, as well as faster CKD progression, compared to women.
Compared to women, men had a higher rate of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality, an increased risk of CKD progression, and a steeper decline in eGFR.
Swartling et al. (Mon,) studied this question.