Tuesday, May 27, 2025 (Healthday News) – Combined Body Mass Index (BMI) – Body Surface Area (BSA) Obesity is associated with an increased risk of adverse outcomes in kidney transplantation (KT). Directly transplanted.
Roxaneh Zaminpeyma, a native of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and colleagues investigated obesity-related adverse outcomes defined using BMI-BSA parameters using a cohort of US adult KT recipients.
The final study included a total of 242,432 patients. 32.0 and 28.6% were obese based on BMI and BSA, respectively. The researchers found that when both BMI and BSA showed obesity compared to non-obesity BMI and BSA, the adjusted risk of death test graft loss, all-cause graft loss, and graft delayed function was the greatest (adjusted hazard ratios, 1.23, 1.09, and 1.58, respectively). The risk was significantly greater than when BMI and BSA were inconsistent.
“Participation of obesity between BMI and BSA with defined obesity is at a significantly lower risk than patients classified as obese by both the BMI and BSA metrics,” the authors write. “BMI-BSA defined obesity should be considered in combination when defining obesity-related risks during kidney transplantation.”
Several authors have revealed their relationship with the biopharmaceutical industry.
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