Influence of the recipient body mass index on the outcomes after kidney transplantation

Juliane Liese,Nils Bottner,Stefan Büttner,Alexander Reinisch,Guido Woeste,Markus Wortmann,Ingeborg A. Hauser,Wolf Otto Bechstein,F Ulrich

Influence of the recipient body mass index on the outcomes after kidney transplantation

2018

Juliane Liese
Nils Bottner
Stefan Büttner
Alexander Reinisch
Guido Woeste
Markus Wortmann
Ingeborg A. Hauser
Wolf Otto Bechstein
F Ulrich

Purpose The relationship between the body mass index (BMI) of kidney transplant recipients and outcomes after kidney transplantation (KT) is not fully understood and remains controversial. We studied the influence of BMI on clinically relevant outcomes in kidney transplant recipients.

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Kidney transplantation
Renal function
General surgery
Body mass index
Medicine
Kidney
Diabetes mellitus
Surgery
Survival rate
Internal medicine
Young adult
Vascular surgery
Retrospective cohort study

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