{
  "id": 14184784,
  "title": "Smoking history of living kidney donors linked to higher transplant complications",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/smoking-history-of-living-kidney-donors-linked-to-higher-transplant",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-13T11:00:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-history-kidney-donors-linked-higher.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "UC Davis Health research has found that people who received a kidney from a living donor with a history of smoking face a higher risk of transplant failure. Transplant failure, known as graft loss, occurs when the transplanted kidney permanently stops working. The highest risk was among patients whose donors had a substantial smoking history.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}