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Obesity
Evidence Does Not Support Obesity as a Relative Contraindication to Heart Transplantation
April 10th, 2007
Recently, guidelines for listing candidates for heart transplant were revised to include obesity (body mass index (BMI) greater than 30 kg/m2) as a potential reason to deny transplantation. However, the evidence supporting this recommendation remains weak. Therefore, using data from the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) Registry, researchers at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York examined the relationship between pre-heart transplant BMI and post-transplant survival. In this study, investigators looked at 18,622 first-time adult transplant recipients between 1995 and 2005. Using a design developed by the National Heart, Lung, and...
Source: Life Science Weekly (2007-04-10)
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