Morbid Obesity Is Not an Independent Predictor of Graft Failure or Patient Mortality After Kidney Transplantation

Journal of Renal Nutrition

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 50-57

  Pieloch, Daniel ^a   Dombrovskiy, Viktor ^b   Osband, Adena J ^a,b   Lebowitz, Jonathan ^a,b   Laskow, David A ^a,b  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBID OBESITY; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY, MORBID; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890439364     PISSN: 10512276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.jrn.2013.07.001     Document Type: Article

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