Nutritional and biochemical profile of patients undergoing kidney transplant.

Abstract

Introduction: In kidney transplantation, a healthy kidney from a living or deceased donor is implanted through surgery to perform filtration and elimination functions.

Objective: To evaluate the nutritional status and biochemical changes in kidney transplant patients in the 1st and 6th month post-transplant.

Methodology: This is a cross-sectional, comparative and descriptive study with 93 patients undergoing kidney transplantation. Demographic, clinical, biochemical data and anthropometric parameters were collected. Nutritional status was assessed using the body mass index classification.

Results: The average age was 43.74±9.96 years. The most prevalent underlying disease diagnosed was systemic arterial hypertension (21.50%). In the first month, 48.38% of the population studied with normal weight and this percentage increased by 4.3% compared to the sixth month. All variables analyzed through biochemical tests showed significant evolution with p<0.05 as a reference.

Conclusion: It was concluded that there was a statistically significant improvement in the values ​​of cholesterol, triglycerides, fasting blood glucose, LDL and HDL in patients after 6 months of kidney transplantation.