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Article: Obesity negatively affects survival following lung transplantation.
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- Transplant News
- Article date:
- May 28, 2002
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Obese patients have a high risk of death after lung transplantation, while patients classified as overweight or underweight fare as well as normal-weight patients.
In a study of 85 lung transplant recipients, James Rodrigue, MD and colleagues from the University of Florida in Gainesville found that patients with a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or more had a mortality risk 3 times greater than that of nonobese patients. High pretransplantation BMI and the development of bronchial tube obstruction (bronchiolitis obliterans) were the ...