title: Risk factors of metabolic syndrome after liver transplantation.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Liver transplantation is a treatment of choice for both acute and chronic liver failure. Accompanied with the increase of long-term survival rates of recipients, metabolic syndrome and its individual components, including obesity, hyperglycemia, hypertension and hyperlipidemia, have become more frequent post liver transplantation. Here we reviewed the literature concerning the risk factors for the development of metabolic complications in liver recipients.
  
  
  METHODS
  PubMed was searched for English-language articles published from January 2000 to June 2015. The search criteria focused on risk factors for metabolic syndrome after liver transplantation.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The risk factors of metabolic syndrome in liver recipients include older age, obesity, pre-transplantation diabetes mellitus, hepatitis C virus infection, certain genetic polymorphisms and the use of immunosuppressive drugs.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Active intervention of the risk factors will reduce the occurrence rate of metabolic syndrome after liver transplantation and improve the recipients' quality of life.
authors.affiliation: Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Department of Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine; Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou 310003, China. wam@zju.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Wei-Lin
authors.initials: WL
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D024821:Metabolic Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome