Comment on: New-Onset Diabetes and Impaired Fasting Glucose After a Liver Transplant: Risk Analysis and the Effect of Tacrolimus Dosage
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Kabir, Ali
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Shahid Beheshti Univ Med Sci, Dept Epidemiol, Fac Publ Hlth, Tehran, Iran
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Kabir, Ali
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[1] Shahid Beheshti Univ Med Sci, Dept Epidemiol, Fac Publ Hlth, Tehran, Iran
[2] Univ Tehran Med Sci, Ctr Educ Res Med Sci, Tehran, Iran
Several clinical risk factors are associated with new-onset diabetes mellitus after a liver transplant including family history of diabetes, impaired fasting glucose, and increased age. The confounding effect of some of these variables may contribute to the reported significant effect of tacrolimus in causing new-onset diabetes mellitus after a transplant.