Source: DGNews  |  Posted 9 years ago

By Lynda Jackson

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK -- July 18, 2002 -- A new post-transplant treatment regimen involving a hypoenergetic, hyperlipidaemic diet may be useful in lowering the risk for atherosclerosis and chronic rejection in obese renal transplant patients.

Dr. Vladimir Teplan, from the department of nephrology, Transplant Centre, Institute of Clinical Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic, presented the study results here July 17th at the 39th annual Congress of the European Renal Association - European Dialysis and Transplant Association (ERA-EDTA).

Obesity is especially associated with other risk factors such as hyperlipidaemia, hypertriglyceridaemia, cardiovascular complications, and in long-term follow-up, chronic allograph nephropathy. Previous research has demonstrated that obese patients do not differ genetically from the general Czech population, Dr. Teplan reported. There are issues not only associated with surgery but also with type of obesity, he said, and in this study it is abdominal in both men and women and is of high prevalence, ranging between 25 percent and 35 percent.

This was a prospective randomised study in 258 obese patients (body mass index [BMI] of at least 30 kg/m