Article about kidneys

This article talks about how old kidneys don't last as long as the young kidneys. The kidneys from older donor don't often last long after transplantation because of it's certain structural dysfunctions that can occur as the kidney ages. There is this function in the kidney that is the filtering units of the kidneys drops as the person ages. Jane C. Tan,Md, of the stanford university medical center in standford,california and her colleagues analyzed the structures of kidney from 20>55 and 23<40 old people. They found a 32% depression of the glomerular filtration rate.