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Obese kidney transplant patients twice as likely to die in the first year or suffer organ failure
11-13-2006 · EurekAlert!Six percent of obese kidney transplant patients die in the first year and 14 percent suffer transplant failures. The figures for non obese patients are three percent and eight percent. Experts from seven university hospitals in the Netherlands studied 2067 patients. Their finding appear in the November issue of Transplant International.
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