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Obese patients wait longer for kidney transplants, research suggests
12-19-2007 · EurekAlert!New research from Johns Hopkins specialists suggests that obese kidney disease patients face not only the usual long odds of a tissue match and organ rejection, but also are significantly less likely than normal-weight people to receive a kidney transplant at all.
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