The purpose of the master 's thesis is to evaluate the participation of kidney transplant patients in the prescription of a diet that would contribute to the reduction of serum cholesterol. The study included 12 adult patients who met the inclusion criteria and were randomly assigned to a group following an unrefined plant-based diet (intervention group, n=7) or a mediterranean diet (control group, n=5). The master's thesis was performed as part of the research Nutritional intervention for the management of serum lipid abnormalities in patients after kidney transplantation at the Transplant Centre, Clinical Department of Nephrology, Internal Medicine Clinic, University Medical Centre Ljubljana. With the methods diet diary for the past 3 days, laboratory tests and measurement of body composition with bioimpedance analysis, we obtained data on their diet, following the prescribed diet plan. We found that patients manage to follow diets well. Both groups consumed more than 80% of meals according to the prescribed diet plan (compliance of the intervention group was 87.6%; compliance of the control group was 96.0%). The difference in consistency between the groups is not statistically significant, which was verified by a t-test for independent samples (p=0,12). After 6 weeks, there were no significant differences between the groups in the average number of meals consumed according to the diet plan. In the intervention group, the average daily number of meals is accordance with the prescribed diet plan was 4.38 out of 5. In the control group, this value was slightly higher, namely 4.80, the p-value for the difference between the groups was 0.123. We can conclude that the participation of patients in both prescribed diet plans is satisfactory and does not differ significantly between the diet with unrefined plant foods and the mediterranean diet.
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