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Feasibility of the Comprehensive Overweight/Obesity Management Pre-Kidney Transplant Program: A Group-Based Lifestyle Intervention and GLP-1 Receptor Agonist Therapy for End-Stage Kidney Disease Candidates Ineligible Due to Obesity.

Article B Peer reviewed Small trial

Key takeaways

This study tested a weight loss program for people waiting for a kidney transplant. It used group education and a type of diabetes drug. The study was small and focused on whether the program was doable. It did not measure long-term kidney health.

Who did this work

Sisson EM · Burns D · Wheeler SE · Akkisetty K · Christensen JL · Gupta G

Source

Article · PubMed, the drug frontier · 2026 Sep 26
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42800900/