Obese children experience later mortality post liver transplantation, study finds

Sunday, October 31, 2010 - 19:30 in Health & Medicine

A new study reports that obese children are at increased mortality risk in later years following primary liver transplantation (LT). Pediatric patients who are thin or severely thin, experience an early mortality risk -- within the first year post-LT.

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