A Narrative Review of Dietary Approaches for Kidney Transplant Patients.

ABSTRACT: A healthy eating pattern has proven to lower the risk of metabolic and cardiovascular diseases. However, there are sparse dietary recommendations for kidney transplant recipients, and the ones available focus only on single nutrients intake, such as sodium, potassium, and proteins, and not on the overall eating pattern. Considering that individuals do not typically consume nutrients in isolation, but as part of a complete dietary pattern, it is challenging for the average transplanted patient to understand and implement specific dietary recommendations. Also, single-nutrient interventions demonstrate largely inconclusive effects, and it seems improbable that they could have a strong enough impact on transplant outcomes. Dietary trends such as plant-based diets, intermittent fasting, low-ca

SUBMITTER: Goldfarb Cyrino L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8258457 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature