New study reveals differences in care of chronic kidney disease between women and men
Women with reduced kidney function received a diagnosis of chronic kidney disease to a less extent than men in the same situation. Women were also less likely to have their kidney function monitored, to visit a nephrologist and to use recommended treatments for chronic kidney disease. This according to a new study by researchers from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.“Our results clearly show sex differences in the care of chronic kidney disease that disadvantage women,” says the study’s last author Juan Jesus Carrero, professor