Following a Mediterranean diet lowers kidney transplant failure


By AGENCY

Eating a Mediterranean diet could help preserve kidney function in transplant recipients. — AFP

New research has shown that people who have had a kidney transplant are less likely to suffer from impaired kidney function if they follow a Mediterranean diet.

Despite improving survival rates for transplanted kidneys in the first few years after transplantation, loss of kidney function within 10 years still occurs in more than one-third of recipients.

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