Evaluation of Dynapenia and Sarcopenia and Their Associations With Serum Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 Levels in Renal Transplant Recipients

Nutrition Therapy as a Critical Component for Protecting the Health of Living Donors

“…We applaud the work of this team from Canada and encourage more research into methods for weight loss in kidney transplant recipients. Yildirim et al 20 measured indices of frailty across transplant recipients, patients with nondialysis CKD, and healthy controls. They found that transplant recipients had higher markers of inflammation, lower muscle strength, and were more likely to have sarcopenia than age-and sex-matched healthy con-trols.…”