Feasibility Study for the Comprehensive Overweight/Obesity Management Pre-Kidney Transplant (COMPKT) Program
Virginia Commonwealth University
Summary
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.
Description
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 e…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 18+ years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria: * on the waiting list for kidney transplant at VCUHS * BMI greater than 35 kg/m2 Exclusion Criteria: * Children, prisoners, pregnant women
Interventions
- BehavioralEducation regarding Weight loss
Per American Association of Clinical Endocrinology (AACE) guidelines
- BehavioralLifestyle tools for weight loss
Calorie App, Continuous GlucosWe Monitor (CGM), Weight Scale, Food Scale
- BiologicalBlood draw
Per American Association of Clinical Endocrinology (AACE) guidelines
Location
- Virginia Commonwealth UniversityRichmond, Virginia