{"id":379,"date":"2015-11-05T09:11:30","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T09:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/blog\/?p=379"},"modified":"2015-11-05T09:11:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T09:11:30","slug":"join-the-discussion-recipient-obesity-and-outcome-after-renal-transplantation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/2015\/11\/05\/join-the-discussion-recipient-obesity-and-outcome-after-renal-transplantation\/","title":{"rendered":"Join the discussion: recipient obesity and outcome after renal transplantation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two recent systematic reviews were published on this important topic. The review by Lafranca and colleagues entitled &#8220;Body mass index and outcome in renal transplant recipients: a systematic review and meta-analysis&#8221;(BMC Medicine 2015;13(1):111) included 56 studies. The authors concluded that &#8220;Several of the pooled outcome measurements show significant benefits for &#8216;low&#8217; BMI (<30) recipients. Therefore, we postulate that ESRD patients with a BMI >30 preferably should lose weight prior to RT&#8221;. The review by Hill and colleagues entitled &#8220;Recipient obesity and outcomes after kidney transplantation: a systematic review and meta-analysis&#8221; (Nephrol Dial Transplant 2015;30(8):1403-11) included 17 studies. They concluded that &#8220;Despite having a much higher likelihood of DGF, obese transplant recipients have only a slightly increased risk of graft loss and experience similar survival to recipients with normal BMI&#8221;. Both authors have left commentaries in the Transplant Library (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.transplantlibrary.com\/article\/26044837\">http:\/\/www.transplantlibrary.com\/article\/26044837<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Join the discussion and leave your opinion in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transplantlibrary.com\">Transplant Library<\/a>. Login with your personal account details or through your society. Contact us if you have problems logging in or would like a free trial account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two recent systematic reviews were published on this important topic. The review by Lafranca and colleagues entitled &#8220;Body mass index and outcome in renal transplant recipients: a systematic review and meta-analysis&#8221;(BMC Medicine 2015;13(1):111) included 56 studies. The authors concluded that &#8220;Several of the pooled outcome measurements show significant benefits for &#8216;low&#8217; BMI (30 preferably should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,177,179],"tags":[195,254,278,292,301],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications","category-reviews","category-library","tag-clinical-research","tag-obesity","tag-renal-transplantation","tag-systematic-review","tag-transplant-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transplantevidence.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}