{"id":6580,"date":"2023-04-18T06:58:29","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T13:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=6580"},"modified":"2023-04-18T06:58:36","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T13:58:36","slug":"do-i-need-to-lose-weight-to-get-a-kidney-transplant-answers-to-your-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2023\/04\/18\/do-i-need-to-lose-weight-to-get-a-kidney-transplant-answers-to-your-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Do I need to lose weight to get a kidney transplant? Answers to your questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"6580\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p>Written By Michelle A. Josephson, MD<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For many people with end-stage kidney disease, or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uchicagomedicine.org\/conditions-services\/kidney-disease\/conditions-treatment\">kidney failure<\/a>, weight has been a barrier to receiving a kidney transplant. However, many kidney transplant centers and specialists are reexamining traditional weight criteria, opening the path for more people to be candidates for kidney transplantation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uchicagomedicine.org\/forefront\/transplant-articles\/do-i-need-to-lose-weight-to-get-a-kidney-transplant\">Read the full article<\/a> in At the Forefront UChicago Medicine.<\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"6580\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading Written By Michelle A. Josephson, MD For many people with end-stage kidney disease, or\u00a0kidney failure, weight has been a barrier to receiving a kidney transplant. However, many kidney transplant &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2023\/04\/18\/do-i-need-to-lose-weight-to-get-a-kidney-transplant-answers-to-your-questions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do I need to lose weight to get a kidney transplant? 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