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The impact and treatment of obesity in kidney transplant candidates and recipients

The prevalence of obesity in patients with chronic kidney failure and renal transplant candidates has paralleled the epidemic in the general population. The associated risks of surgical complications and long-term cardiovascular death are significant: most transplant centers consider obesity a relat...

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Autores principales: Chan, Gabriel, Garneau, Pierre, Hajjar, Roy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4522095/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26236496
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40697-015-0059-4