1. UK renal transplant outcomes in low and high BMI recipients: the need for a national policy
- Author
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Nikolaos Karydis, Theodoros Kassimatis, Clare Flach, Ioannis D. Kostakis, Valentina Bianchi, Nicos Kessaris, Benedict L. Phillips, Chris J. Callaghan, Panoraia Paraskeva, Ioannis Loukopoulos, and Francis Calder
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Nephrology ,Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,030232 urology & nephrology ,Disease ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,Overweight ,Body Mass Index ,03 medical and health sciences ,Young Adult ,0302 clinical medicine ,Postoperative Complications ,Thinness ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Obesity ,Registries ,Risk factor ,Aged ,Retrospective Studies ,business.industry ,Graft Survival ,nutritional and metabolic diseases ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Kidney Transplantation ,United Kingdom ,Transplantation ,Survival Rate ,Treatment Outcome ,Kidney Failure, Chronic ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,Underweight ,business ,Body mass index - Abstract
We assessed the effect of recipient body mass index (BMI) on the outcomes of renal transplantation and the management of obese patients with end-stage renal disease across the UK. We analyzed data of 25539 adult renal transplants (2007–2016) from the UK Transplant Registry. Patients were divided in BMI groups [underweight
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- 2019