Foucher Y, Lorent M, Albano L, et al. - Since there exist a number of publications that have compared the link between body mass index (BMI) of kidney transplant recipients and graft/patient survival, no study has evaluated this for a French patient cohort. Herein, researchers assessed patient and graft survival and various other time-to-event measures, by using cause-specific Cox models. They applied logistic regressions to assess surgical complications at 30 days after transplantation as well as delayed graft function. This analysis involved 4,691 patients, of those, 747 were considered obese with a BMI level exceeding 30 kg/m ² . Findings revealed that among obese French kidney transplant recipients, an increased risk of death and serious bacterial infections and cardiac complications was conferred by the presence of obesity.