Open AccessCardiovascular Consequences of New-Onset Hyperglycemia After Kidney Transplantation
Author(s) -
Rianne P. Wauters,
Fernando G. Cosio,
M. Fernández,
Yogish C. Kudva,
Pankaj Shah,
Vicente E. Torres
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.45
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1534-6080
pISSN - 0041-1337
DOI - 10.1097/tp.0b013e3182584831
Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , transplantation , diabetes mellitus , body mass index , kidney transplantation , gastroenterology , risk factor , endocrinology , confidence interval
New-onset diabetes after transplantation (NODAT) is associated with high cardiovascular (CV) risk and reduced patient survival. It is unclear whether this risk is newly acquired or represents preexisting CV disease in patients with this complication.