Nursing Care in Managing Risk Factors of Metabolic Syndrome After Kidney Transplant

Metabolic Syndrome; Obesity, high blood pressure, low HDL cholesterol, dyslipidemia and hyperglycemia. Immunological risk factors for loss of graft function after renal transplantation may be acute and chronic rejection, infection, calcineurin inhibitor toxicity and metabolic complications. New-onset diabetes mellitus after transplantation and hypertension after kidney transplantation both reduce graft survival and increase mortality. Rejection after transplantation may also require patients to receive a new renal replacement therapy. Metabolic syndrome can be reduced by taking precautions such as increasing physical activity, prevention of weight gain and control of cardiovascular risk factors, and by well planning of immunosuppressive use. For this reason, the well-known risk factors associated with the metabolic syndrome and the metabolic syndrome are of great importance for the planning of nursing care, for the education and counselling of the patient and his / her family, in distinguishing high-risk patients and in identifying prevention / preventive approaches. In this review, nursing care in the prevention and control of metabolic syndrome risk factors, which we consider to be critical after kidney transplantation, will be summarized in the light of current knowledge