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The oral supplementation of inorganic nitrate (NO 3 − ) has been shown to increase the salivary and plasma nitrite (NO 2 − ), a precursor to NO, though there may be significant variation in the pharmacokinetics of this process between different supplements.
Moreover, regarding the postoperative outcomes of our series of patients, multivariate analysis showed that patients who underwent primary anastomosis without a protective ileostomy exhibited a clear trend toward lower morbidity compared to those treated with a Hartmann’s procedure.
While no significant differences were observed in terms of patient or graft survival ( p = 0.72 and p = 0.51, respectively), the incidence of eGFR < 60 ml/min/1.73 m 2 showed a trend approaching statistical significance, being higher among recipients from living donors compared to deceased donors (79.2% vs. 45.7% after 10 years of follow-up, respectively; p = 0.07). 4.
Additionally, due to the low frequency of acute service utilization events and the lack of statistically or nearly significant bivariate associations, multivariable logistic regression was not performed, limiting our ability to assess independent effects and potential confounding among predictors. 5.