Men and women have different experiences with declining kidney function as they age, so researchers set out to try to figure out what was happening.
What they knew was that more women have chronic kidney disease (CKD), while more men develop kidney failure, a seeming contradiction.
What they found was that middle-aged women tended to have lower kidney function than men during the first part of the 13-year study. However, men’s kidney function dropped more rapidly as they aged. The findings were published Aug. 17 in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
For the study, the research team looked at 1,837 adults, about 53% of whom were women, aged 50 to 62, in northern Europe. They were representative of the general population and did not have self-reported diabetes, chronic kidney disease or heart disease….