Following a Mediterranean diet lowers kidney transplant failure

Eating a Mediterranean diet could help preserve kidney function in transplant recipients. — AFP

New research has shown that people who have had a kidney transplant are less likely to suffer from impaired kidney function if they follow a Mediterranean diet.

Despite improving survival rates for transplanted kidneys in the first few years after transplantation, loss of kidney function within 10 years still occurs in more than one-third of recipients.