Pre-kidney transplant unintentional weight loss leads to worse post-kidney transplant outcomes

Weight loss before kidney transplant (KT) is a known risk factor for weight gain and mortality, however, while unintentional weight loss is a marker of vulnerability, intentional weight loss might improve health. We tested whether pre-KT unintentional and intentional weight loss have differing associations with post-KT weight gain, graft loss and mortality.Among 919 KT recipients from a prospective cohort study, we used adjusted mixed-effects...