New research has revealed that women may be more likely to reject a kidney from a man and have suggested same-sex transplants should be considered - which could affect the life insurance policies of patients.

The study involved looking at 200,000 patients and the Swiss researchers found an eight per cent increase in the chance of women rejecting male kidneys.

Conversely, a spokesman for the UK Transplant Authority said that their studies did not support this latest research as "no statistical evidence was found to suggest any of the sex-related factors significantly affected post-transplant graft survival".

The spokesmen went on to conclude: "Therefore, donor to recipient sex matching is not something that is considered in the kidney allocation scheme."

Stem-cell transplant research has already established that women who get "male" cells are at an increased risk of rejecting them or having an immune reaction to "molecules specific to males found on the surface of cells".

Donor patients will be affected by lack of UK life insurance. ADNFCR-980-ID-18673262-ADNFCR

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