Marit Elizabeth von Düring‘s PhD thesis looks at associations between visceral fat, diabetes and arterial stiffness in kidney transplant recipients.
MAIN RESULTS:
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High prevalence of obesity among Somali immigrants in Norway.
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Visceral fat is strongly associated with post‐transplant diabetes mellitus.
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Arterial stiffness is associated with visceral fat mass in kidney transplanted patients.
THESIS DEFENCE:
Thesis: Associations between visceral fat, post transplant diabetes and arterial stiffness in kidney transplant recipients
Candidate: Marit Elizabeth von Düring
Time: December 12, 2019 at 13:15
Place: Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet B: Store auditorium
Link to university website
SUMMARY:
(1/3) Glucose metabolism generally improves the first year after kidney transplantation. Visceral adipose tissue is more closely related to impaired glucose metabolism at follow-up than body mass index. The association was stronger at one year follow-up compared to after eight weeks.
150 patients were examined one year after transplantation with oral glucose tolerance tests and body composition measurements with DXA.
(2) Visceral adipose tissue is a risk factor for arterial stiffness after kidney transplantation, whereas high BMI is not. In multivariate analysis, arterial stiffness was not associated with hyperglycemia.
This analysis contains data from 162 non-diabetic kidney transplant recipients 8‐10 weeks after transplantation. Arterial stiffness was measured as pulse wave velocity.
REFERENCES:
(1) Von Düring, M. E., Jenssen, T., Bollerslev, J., Åsberg, A., Godang, K., & Hartmann, A. (2017). Visceral fat is strongly associated with post‐transplant diabetes mellitus and glucose metabolism 1 year after kidney transplantation. Clinical transplantation, 31(1), e12869.
(2) von Düring, M. E., Jenssen, T., Bollerslev, J., Godang, K., Hartmann, A., & Åsberg, A. (2018). Arterial stiffness is associated with visceral fat mass in kidney transplanted patients—A nationwide cohort study. Clinical transplantation, 32(8), e13341.
