{"id":4599,"date":"2022-05-19T08:49:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=4599"},"modified":"2022-08-16T14:10:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T21:10:21","slug":"what-a-gene-and-its-risks-could-mean-for-kidney-transplants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2022\/05\/19\/what-a-gene-and-its-risks-could-mean-for-kidney-transplants\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Gene and Its Risks Could Mean for Kidney Transplants"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"4599\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p><em>Kidneys from Black donors are automatically downgraded in transplant assessments, but studying a gene variant could help change that<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Transplant specialists, when evaluating kidneys that come from donors, try to work out how likely it is that the kidney will fail after being transplanted into a recipient. Their&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/optn.transplant.hrsa.gov\/media\/1512\/guide_to_calculating_interpreting_kdpi.pdf\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">risk calculations<\/a>&nbsp;consider factors including the donor\u2019s age, height, weight and history of diabetes. And, to the dismay of some researchers, it also includes the donor\u2019s race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kidneys from deceased Black donors are automatically downgraded as higher risk.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/17\/health\/kidney-transplants-black-americans.html\">Read the full story<\/a> in The New York Times.<\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"4599\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading Kidneys from Black donors are automatically downgraded in transplant assessments, but studying a gene variant could help change that. Transplant specialists, when evaluating kidneys that come from donors, try &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2022\/05\/19\/what-a-gene-and-its-risks-could-mean-for-kidney-transplants\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What a Gene and Its Risks Could Mean for Kidney Transplants&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":4054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_ecp_custom_2":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,912,2],"tags":[475,302],"post_format":[],"Dislikes":"","Likes":"","simplefavorites_count":"","views":"1411","post_likes_plusCounter":"2","post_dislikes_plusCounter":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4600,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599\/revisions\/4600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4599"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=4599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}