Living donor kidney transplantation boasts superior patient and graft survival rates compared to deceased donor kidney transplantation. However, the impact of living donor body composition (BC) on post-transplant kidney function remains uncertain. In a cohort of 293 living kidney donor-recipients pairs, we utilized linear mixed model analyses, adjusted for time and including a multiplicative interaction term of time with the donor body composition measure, and found no significant associations between any donor BC measure and the annual change in recipient post-transplantation estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) [donor body mass index (BMI):
Analyzing body composition in living kidney donors: impact on post-transplant kidney function
E. Quint, L. Westenberg, G. Nieuwenhuijs-Moeke, E. van den Broek, M. Zorgdrager, A. Viddeleer, S. Bakker, I. Nolte, M. van Londen and R. Pol
Front Nephrol 2024;4:1467669.