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Saturday, May 10, 2014

Survival Rates of Diabetic, Nondiabetic Transplant Patients Nearly Equal

Among 1688 kidney recipients, including 413 with diabetes prior to transplant between 1996 and 2007, those with diabetes had a 2.7-fold increased risk of dying within 5 years compared to nondiabetics. However, 5-year mortality in patients with diabetes declined over time, narrowing the mortality difference and in more recent years largely eliminating it. Posttransplant, diabetics experienced a significant decline in major fatal/nonfatal cardiac events and infectious deaths over time. Neither cardiac events nor overall mortality declined in nondiabetics. Improvements in survival of kidney recipients with diabetes likely reflect enhanced posttransplant management and outcomes, according to the Kidney International study.

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