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. 2021 Jul 29:12:670674.
doi: 10.3389/fendo.2021.670674. eCollection 2021.

Sex Differences in Biopsy-Confirmed Diabetic Kidney Disease

Yiting Wang  1 , Jue Zhang  1 , Junlin Zhang  1 , Yucheng Wu  1 , Rui Zhang  1 , Honghong Ren  1 , Mark E Cooper  2 , Fang Liu  1
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Sex Differences in Biopsy-Confirmed Diabetic Kidney Disease

Yiting Wang et al. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). .

Abstract

Background: To investigate the association between sex differences and end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) in patients with biopsy-confirmed diabetic kidney disease (DKD).

Method: We performed a retrospective cohort study. A total of 336 patients with biopsy-confirmed DKD who were followed up for at least 12 months were enrolled. Baseline clinical and pathological data at the time of biopsy were collected. ESKD was defined by an estimated glomerular filtration rate of <15 ml/min/1.73 m2 or initiation of renal replacement therapy. The association between sex differences and ESKD was assessed using the log-rank test and Cox regression.

Result: There were 239 (71%) male and 97 (29%) female patients in our cohort. Female patients had higher systolic blood pressure, total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels compared with male. There were a lower proportion of female patients in the very high risk grade according to the chronic kidney disease categories (37% of female vs. 44% of male). During a median follow-up time of 20 months, 101 (57.7%) male and 43 (44.3%) female entered into ESKD, with no significant difference by the log-rank test (P >0.05). Univariate [male: hazard ratio (HR) [95% confidence interval (CI)], 1.005, (0.702-1.439)] and multivariable ([male: HR (95%CI), 1.164, (0.675-2.007)]. Cox regression further showed that sex difference was not significantly associated with ESKD.

Conclusion: Female patients had the higher systolic blood pressure, total cholesterol, LDL-C, compared with male patients. However, there was no significant association observed between sex difference and ESKD in our study.

Keywords: diabetic kidney disease; end stage kidney disease; risk factors; sex differences; type 2 diabetes.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Prognosis of CKD categories and sex. Proteinuria (g/24 hours) of 306 patients were obtained at the baseline. Green, low risk (if no other markers of kidney disease, no CKD); Yellow: moderately increased risk; Orange: high risk; Red, very high risk. The digits in (A) cells represent the numbers of patients. (B) represent the percentage of male and female in different categories.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Sex difference and ESKD. (A) was showed survival curves of male and female, (B) was showed survival curves of male, menopausal/premenopausal women. Log-rank analysis was used to compared the percent survival between male and female. There was no significant difference between male, premenopusal and menopausal female.
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