Study: Kidney donors do fine, no long-term issues

Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 17:14 in Psychology & Sociology

NEW YORK (AP) -- Donating a kidney doesn't appear to have any long-term health consequences for the donor, a reassuring study shows. Researchers at the University of Minnesota found those who gave up one of their two kidneys lived a normal life span and were as healthy as people in the general population. The donation also didn't raise the risk of having kidney failure later....

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