The Impact of Donor Body Mass Index on Safety and Outcomes in Living Donor Liver Transplantation: An Analysis of the National United States Database.

A recent study observed a trend of higher 90-d readmission rates in donors with obesity that did not reach statistical significance, but long-term outcome data were not analyzed. 5 Although incidences of readmission within the first year of donation is well captured in national data, it is difficult to make any conclusions about the cause of readmission because of a lack of granularity.

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Variables that had a value of P ≤ 0.1 (approaching significance) in the univariable analyses were considered in a multivariable logistic regression model to identify independent predictors of donor readmission.

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