Researchers say the reason is, the older women get, the less likely providers may think they are to survive an operation.
But the study disputes that.
Hopkins researchers found women who had kidney transplants had higher survival rates than men.
Study: Gender bias on transplant waiting list
March 25, 2009
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University looked at data from more than half-a-million patients suffering from renal failure.
They found women over the age of 45 were much less likely to be placed on the kidney transplant waiting list.
Women over 55 were 15 percent less likely to make the list.
