 Hi, I am Dr. Shilpa Shetty, Consultant in Nephrology, Manipal Hospitals. The risk factors for kidney diseases in general are diabetes, hypertension, obesity, smoking, and family history of kidney diseases. But in women there is an added risk of pregnancy related kidney diseases like septic abortions leading to infections, major bleeding after childbirth, hypertension or preeclampsia. All this may lead to acute kidney injury or what we call a temporary kidney failure. But unfortunately some of this temporary kidney failure leads on to chronic kidney disease or permanent kidney damage. Also women are prone for some unique kidney diseases, mainly autoimmune diseases like SLE, scleroderma, rheumatoid arthritis, many of which affect multiple organs including the kidney. However transplantation is the best option for all kidney failure patients including women. After kidney transplantation women can lead a normal active life and they can also become pregnant. Labour and delivery can be uncomplicated in women who have transplant under the care of a good nephrologist and a gynecologist. Some modifications of medications which are taken for transplantation, BP monitoring and renal function monitoring by the nephrologist is required. We also see many women being donors to their loved ones, mainly their spouses, children or other family members. This is true across all countries. This may be due to various factors like various socio-economic factors and cultural factors and also the inherent compassionate nature of women.