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Article: Obese Patients Wait Longer for Kidney Transplants, Research Suggests; Medicare Payment Plans Are a Factor.
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- December 19, 2007
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Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
BALTIMORE, Dec. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- 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.
The Johns Hopkins study results, to be published online this Wednesday in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, reveal that morbidly obese patients (those who on average weigh 100 pounds more than their ideal weight) are on the transplant waiting list for a median of five years - two years more than ...