Testing for coronary heart disease before kidney transplant may not lower adverse outcomes

Testing for coronary heart disease within 12 months before kidney transplantation did not correlate with a change in death or myocardial infarction within 30 days after the transplant, according to data published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Therefore, researchers suggest that testing for coronary heart disease (CHD) may not reduce the risk of adverse outcomes after a transplant. Read more in Healio.