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Machine Learning has been increasingly used to improve risk prediction across a range of transplant-related outcomes, yet its application to post-transplant weight trajectories remains unexplored. This study is the first to evaluate the feasibility of using Machine Learning algorithms to identify predictors of weight gain after kidney transplantation.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"sec002\">\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This retrospective cohort study analyzed 374 adult kidney transplant recipients. We developed an Elastic Net regression model with 10-fold cross-validation to predict body weight variation at 12 months post-transplant. The analysis screened a comprehensive set of demographic and clinical variables, including recipient characteristics, donor type, dialysis duration, and pre-transplant hypertension, to identify predictors within the training (75%) and testing (25%) datasets.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"sec003\">\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Mean weight gain was 4.0\u2009\u00b1\u20097.4 kg. The Elastic Net model retained four predictors in the final model: female sex, deceased donor source, age, and pre-transplant body mass index. However, the model demonstrated limited predictive performance (R\n                      <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                      \u2009=\u20090.10; Mean Absolute Error\u2009=\u20098.7%), indicating that baseline variables explain only a small fraction of the observed variability in weight change.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"sec004\">\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This pioneering study establishes an analytical benchmark and reveals the informational limits of standard clinical datasets for predicting post-transplant weight gain. While Machine Learning application is feasible, current demographic and clinical variables are insufficient for precise individual prediction. 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