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Table 1 Risk factors for post-transplant diabetes development

From: Post-transplant diabetes mellitus

Non-modifiable

Potentially modifiable

Modifiable

Ethnicity (non-Caucasian)

Infections

Immunosuppressive Therapy

Age >40 years-old

   • HCV

   • Tacrolimus

Recipient's gender (M)

   • CMV

   • Cyclosporine

Donor's gender (M)

IGT (pre-transplantation)

   • Corticosteroid

Family history of DM

 

   • Sirolimus

HLA

 

Obesity

HLA (mismatches)

 

MS components

Cadaver-donor

  

History of acute rejection

  
  1. IGT, Impaired glucose tolerance; MS, Metabolic Syndrome