Feasibility Study for the Comprehensive Overweight/Obesity Management Pre-Kidney Transplant (COMPKT) Program

Description

This project will be a single-arm feasibility study, with a treatment intervention that includes three interrelated components: (1) patient education using a proven weight loss curriculum, and (2) technology tools for making healthy lifestyle choices.To optimize care for overweight/obese patients who are awaiting kidney transplants by implementing a referral process and a multi-pronged, team-based nurse/pharmacist/dietitian weight loss treatment intervention to help these patients achieve transplant criteria. Obesity, hypertension, and ESRD disproportionately affect the Black community, and Black patients have been historically disadvantaged by race-inclusive calculations that overestimated their kidney function. Effective January 5, 2023, the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Board of Directors requires use of a race-neutral estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) to qualify candidates for kidney transplant. They also required transplant programs to identify Black cand

Trial Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria: * on the waiting list for kidney transplant at VCUHS * BMI greater than 35 kg/m2 Exclusion Criteria: * Children, prisoners, pregnant women

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