Great Article About Kidney Donors

I came across a great article about the effects of having only one kidney after donation.

The article is about a study release by Dr. Dorry Segev, M.D., PhD and his team at Johns Hopkins Hospital.


Here is an excerpt from the article:
"Segev and his team from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore studied mortality among 80,000 kidney donors over the past 15 years, comparing them to healthy people with both kidneys. The study, published March 10 in JAMA The Journal of the American Medical Association—60 years after the first kidney transplant in the U.S.—found no increase in mortality in donors once they recover from the operation." 


The article can be found at: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=kidney-donor-mortality