Effect of the Obesity Epidemic on Kidney Transplantation: Obesity Is Independent of Diabetes as a Risk Factor for Adverse Renal Transplant Outcomes

• Jennifer M. Kwan,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, United States of America

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• Zahraa Hajjiri,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, United States of America

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• Ahmed Metwally,

  Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, United States of America

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• Patricia W. Finn ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Patricia W. Finn, David L. Perkins

  * E-mail: pwfinn@uic.edu

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, United States of America

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• David L. Perkins

  Contributed equally to this work with: Patricia W. Finn, David L. Perkins

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, United States of America, Department of Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, United States of America

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