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Frailty Is a Factor in Higher Mortality for Women Awaiting Liver Transplants – UCSF News Services
A study headed by UCSF and Columbia University highlights the role that frailty plays in this gender gap.
Women awaiting liver transplants in the United States are known to be about one-third more likely than men to become too ill to undergo surgery or die before receiving a liver. Now a study headed by UC San Francisco and Columbia University highlights the role that frailty plays in this gender gap.
The study followed 1,405 patients with cirrhosis, of whom 41 percent were women, awaiting liver transplantation at nine transplant centers in the United States. The men, whose ages ranged from 49 to 63,…
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