Gender disparity in access to early liver transplant among patients with alcohol associated liver disease and limited sobriety is mediated by psychosocial factors
Notable gender disparities in access to LT exist among patients with ALD evaluated with <6 months of sobriety. Lower waitlisting in women is mediated by higher rates of psychiatric conditions and lower rates of employment, though gender-specific alcohol-associated bias may also contribute.
Authors
- Deepika Devuni (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1011-9414)
- Nicholas Lim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9740-8923)
- Ami K. Patel
- Veeral Ajmera (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5626-0942)
- Allison J. Kwong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3874-6612)
- Bima J. Hasjim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4301-9011)
- Kaleb Tesfai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5968-2294)
- Katherine M. Cooper (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6030-4773)
- Anjana Rajan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5974-8898)
- Wenyu Wu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7540-4953)
- Hersh Shroff (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7694-3898)
- Amanda Cheung (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3087-2032)
- Kawthar A. Mohamed
- Kevin C. Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4321-0414)
- Alessandro Colletta
Institutions
- Northwestern University (US)
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- University of Minnesota (US)
- Rochester Institute of Technology (US)
- University of San Diego (US)
- University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School (US)
- University of Minnesota System (US)
- University of California San Diego (US)
- Stanford Medicine (US)
- Northwestern Medicine (US)
- UMass Memorial Medical Center (US)
- University of Rochester (US)
- Stanford University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Liver Transplantation
- Published
- 2025-10-07
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/lvt.0000000000000722
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.71