Gender Disparities in Access to Kidney Transplantation

1Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2Alberta Kidney Disease Network, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 3Libin Cardiovascular Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 4O'Brien Institute for Public Health, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 5Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 6Nova Scotia Health, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 7Kidney Research Institute Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Correspondence: Dr. Sofia B. Ahmed, 3230 Hospital Drive North West, Rm 2AC70, Calgary, AB T2N 4Z6, Alberta, Canada. Email: [email protected] See related Patient Voice, "Gender Disparities in Access to Kidney Transplant," and article, "Perspectives of Nephrologists on Gender Disparities in Access to Kidney Transplantation," on pages 1245–1246 and 1333–1342, respectively.