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Body Composition and Mortality after Adult Lung Transplantation in the United States

Body Composition and Mortality after Adult Lung Transplantation in the United States

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Body Composition and Mortality after Adult Lung Transplantation in the United States

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Full title

Body Composition and Mortality after Adult Lung Transplantation in the United States

Publisher

United States: American Thoracic Society

Journal title

American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine, 2014-11, Vol.190 (9), p.1012-1021

Language

English

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Publication information

Publisher

United States: American Thoracic Society

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Scope and Contents

Contents

Obesity and underweight are contraindications to lung transplantation based on their associations with mortality in studies performed before implementation of the lung allocation score (LAS)-based organ allocation system in the United States Objectives: To determine the associations of body mass index (BMI) and plasma leptin levels with survival af...

Alternative Titles

Full title

Body Composition and Mortality after Adult Lung Transplantation in the United States

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Primary Identifiers

Record Identifier

TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_4299586

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_4299586

Other Identifiers

ISSN

1073-449X

E-ISSN

1535-4970

DOI

10.1164/rccm.201405-0973OC

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