Key Takeaways

Women are less likely than men to get a donated lung

Even after allocation reforms, women are still 16% less likely to get a donation

Women’s anatomy and biology tends to be more complex, making it tougher to find an appropriate match

TUESDAY, Oct. 28, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Women are less likely than men to find a donor lung, despite new systems to make organ allocation fairer, a new study says.

Women were 32% less likely than men to receive a lung implant before the reforms went into effect in March 2023, researchers reported recently in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery .

But afterward, they were still 16% less likely than men to find a replacement lung from a donor, results showed.

“There was a modest improvement in narrowing the gap, but we still have a lot of w

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