Obesity and Renal Transplant Outcome: A Report of the North American Pediatric Renal Transplant Cooperative Study
- 1 February 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in Pediatrics
- Vol. 115 (2) , 352-356
- https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2004-0289
Abstract
Objective. Obesity is increasing in the end-stage renal disease population. Studies that have evaluated the effect of obesity on transplant outcomes in adults have yielded varying results. This issue has received little attention in the pediatric population.Keywords
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