Medical Student Research Forum Posters

Long-term management strategies to preserve graft function in post-renal transplant patients have largely remained stagnant. Whole-food plant-based dietary counseling has beenshown to reduce the incidence of comorbidities(diabetes, dyslipidemia, and hypertension) that post-transplant patients are at increased risk for developing. It is not yet standard-of-care to offer post-transplant patients long-term dietary counseling. Whole-food plant-based dietary counseling is a cost-effective and safe intervention that can be widely distributed.This examines if three months of whole-food plant-based dietary counseling in post-renal transplant patients can reduce the incidence of comorbidities thus improving graft & patient outcome.