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DOI: 10.1590/S0004-27302005000200014
We evaluated retrospectively 34 patients with post-kidney transplant diabetes (PTDM) (group 1) and 68 submitted to renal transplant without PTDM (group 0) to determine the prevalence and risk factors for developing PTDM in patients followed at the Hospital Universitário Pedro Ernesto. The prevalence of PTDM was 7.4%. Group 1 patients were older at data collection (p<0.005) and at transplantation (p<0.005). Among them there was a higher frequency of cadaver donors (p= 0.023) and hypercholesterolemia (p= 0.006), and a lower frequency […]
Keywords: Post-transplant diabetes; prevalence; Risk factors; Transplantation