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Impact of Recipient and Donor Obesity Match on the Outcomes of Liver Transplantation: All Matches Are Not Perfect

There is a paucity of literature examining recipient-donor obesity matching on liver transplantation outcomes. The United Network for Organ Sharing database was queried for first-time recipients of liver transplant whose age was ≥18 between January 2003 and September 2013. Outcomes including patient and graft survival at 30 days, 1 year, and 5 years and overall, liver retransplantation, and length of stay were compared between nonobese recipients receiving a graft from nonobese donors and obese recipient-obese donor, obese recipient-nonobese donor, and nonobese recipient-obese donor pairs. 51,556 LT recipients were identified, including 34,217 (66%) nonobese and 17,339 (34%) obese recipients. The proportions of patients receiving an allograft from an obese donor were 24% and 29%, respectively, among nonobese and obese recipients. Graft loss (HR: 1.27; 95% CI: 1.09–1.46; p=0.002) and mortality (HR: 1.38; 95% CI: 1.16–1.65; p<0.001) at 30 days were increased in the obese recipient-obese donor pair. However, 1-year graft (HR: 0.83; 95% CI: 0.74–0.93; p=0.002) and patient (HR: 0.84; 95% CI: 0.74–0.95; p=0.007) survival and overall patient (HR: 0.93; 95% CI: 0.86–1.00; p=0.042) survival were favorable. There is evidence of recipient and donor obesity disadvantage early, but survival curves demonstrate improved long-term outcomes. It is important to consider obesity in the donor-recipient match

What's New at JGR‐Oceans? Confronting Bias, Burn Out, and Big Data

JGR‐Oceans receives many more submissions from a broader demographic of authors than in the past and burnout among reviewers as well as potential bias among editors is threatening excellence and equity at the journal. To confront these issues, we have implemented some new editorial strategies that are anticipated to provide a fairer and more rewarding peer‐review experience for authors, as well as alleviate pressure on reviewers and deliver high quality science for readers. First, we have recruited a dozen new editors from across the world who better reflect our author demographic and who can make wiser and more inclusive decisions about the running of the journal. Second, we now require that each manuscript clearly communicate new understanding about the ocean before we send it out for review. This simple rubric deflects potentially biased editorial decisions based on author attributes and brings us closer to the original scope of JGR‐Oceans. Third, we are facilitating a culture of collaboration among reviewers and among ourselves, the editors, that brings more balanced decision‐making to reviews and manuscripts and provides authors more feedback. Our aim is to better help authors communicate their science with confidence and clarity. Finally, JGR‐Oceans has always been a multi‐disciplinary journal and we are encouraging more submissions that convey new understanding of biogeochemical processes and human interact ocean variability and change. Key Points JGR‐Oceans has diversified the editorial board and implemented new editorial strategie

Energy Efficient Industrialized Housing Research Program: Summary FY 1993 Research Activities

94 pagesThis report summarizes research results from tasks conducted from March 1993 to February 1994 as part of the Energy Efficient Industrialized Housing Research Program. Detailed descriptions of tasks, methods, and results are available in the reports listed in section 13 of this document.U.S. Department of Energy Contract No. DE-FC01-89CE2205

Thank You to Our 2021 Reviewers

Plain Language Summary Thank you to the 1,371 reviewers who provided 2,661 reviews during 2021 to ensure the same quality and integrity of JGR‐O manuscripts. Key Point The editors thank the 2021 peer reviewer