America’s chronic obesity epidemic is leading to a national shortage of donor organs, a just released research study conducted at the North Shore-LIJ Health System Transplant Center in New York and Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, revealed.
The study found that almost a quarter of those willing to donate an organ were excluded because they were obese.
Currently, about 92,000 patients are waiting for a kidney. As many as 7,000 people on the transplant list die each year, the New York Times has reported.
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