Obesity Care Barriers in Kidney Transplant Candidates and Recipients: Perspectives from a Survey of Transplant Experts
Kidney transplant professionals believe that obesity medicine physicians are best suited to lead obesity treatment for their patients, though access to this care appears to be a major barrier.
Authors
- Kenneth J. Woodside (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7495-3758)
- Megan Urbanski (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5054-0716)
- Vasanthi Balaraman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-5944-0366)
- Babak John Orandi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6026-7135)
- H. Morford
- Prince M. Anand
- Pooja Budhiraja
- M. Kazem Fallahzadeh
- W. Scott Butsch
- Chethan M. Puttarajappa
Institutions
- Cleveland Clinic (US)
- Emory University (US)
- University of Tennessee Health Science Center (US)
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- NYU Langone Health (US)
- Mayo Clinic in Arizona (US)
- Mayo Clinic Hospital (US)
- Gift of Life Michigan (US)
- Wake Forest University (US)
- University of South Carolina Lancaster (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Obesity Facts
- Published
- 2026-01-19
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000550516
- Primary Topic
- Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- University of Pennsylvania
- Cleveland Clinic
- Cleveland Clinic Foundation
- University of Washington
- University of South Carolina
- Virginia Commonwealth University
- Temple University