14 DAY TRIAL // Children who receive organ transplants, especially livers, from adult donors who were obese or severely obese are at a higher risk of experiencing graft failure, and subsequently dying, researchers at the University of California in San Francisco’s (UCSF) Benioff Children’s Hospital say.
International statistics in this regard are very worrying. Of the 1.4 billion overweight adults in the world (more than a seventh of the global population), 200 million men and 300 million women are obese or severely obese.
This is important to know because the incidence of organs form obese donors has increased in hospitals internationally, especially over the past couple of decades.
“Donor [body-mass index] is associated with post-transplant obesity, but not survival rates of adult liver recipients,” says lead study author Dr. Philip Rosenthal, quoted by AlphaGalileo.