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VANCOUVER A Surrey lawyer and two-time kidney transplant survivor is advocating for a shorter time between the first and second COVID-19 vaccine doses for immuno-compromised B.C. residents. Stuart Zukerman is grateful he got his first dose of the Pfizer vaccine last week, but says it doesn’t offer him the same sense of security as it does others. “I’m definitely not going to feel the same security that a regular British Columbian has who doesn’t have immunosuppressant issues,” he said. Zukerman, who was born with only one partially-functional kidney, takes many daily medications to prevent organ rejection after he received a second kidney transplant in 2018.
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Some of the latest research advancements in the field of nephrology presented at the virtual National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meeting included post-marketing safety data on patiromer (Veltassa), metformin for polycystic kidney disease, and kidney care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Below are a few more research highlights:
Disparities in Kidney Transplants
Significant racial/ethnic and sex disparities exist across end-stage renal disease (ESRD) networks when it comes to waiting for a kidney transplant, reported Reem Hamoda, MPH, of the University of Chicago, and colleagues.
Looking at over 1.3 million incident adult dialysis patients in the U.S. Renal Data System from 2005 to 2016, women were far less likely to get a spot on the renal transplant waitlist. Among these patients, 19.4% were waitlisted.