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Article: Data on kidney transplants detailed by N. Nourimajalan and co-authors.
- Article from:
- Obesity & Diabetes Week
- Article date:
- November 9, 2009
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According to recent research from Iran, "Hyperhomocysteinemia frequently occurs after renal transplantation. We therefore assessed whether serum homocysteine (Hcy) concentrations were correlated with clinical, paraclinical, and arterial Doppler parameters among renal transplant patients."
"A cross-sectional study was performed on 47 patients (30 males, 17 females) who received unrelated living donor renal transplants. The mean serum Hcy concentration was 21.7 +/- 8.4 mu mol/L (range = 5.8-48 mu mol/L); 37 patients (79%) showed hyperhomocysteinernia (Hcy >= 15 mu mol/L). Serum Hcy was strongly related to body mass index (BMI; r = .43, P = .002), cyclosporine ...