Kim Y, Yu MY, Yoo KD, et al. - By performing this cohort study, researchers determined the long-term mortality experience of living kidney donors vs members of the general public in Korea who had voluntary health examinations. They reported excellent survival rates in the living kidney donors and health examination population vs the general population. During a mean follow-up of 12.3 ± 8.1 years, the deaths of 52 (4.0%) of 1,292 kidney donors were reported. A mean follow-up of 11.4 ± 6.1 years revealed the deaths of 1,072 (3.2%) of 33,805 in the health examiner subgroup without donation contraindications. No rise in the hazard for mortality was noted in relation to donor nephrectomy, following multivariable adjustment in kidney donors and the 33,805 comparators. Overall, long-term rates of mortality in kidney donors were found to be comparable to nondonor comparators with similar health status.