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Materials and Method: The study included patients with HBV who underwent living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) at Demiro\u011flu Bilim University, \u015ei\u015fli Liver Transplant Center, Istanbul, T\u00fcrkiye, between 2004 and 2019. The data from 319 patients were retrospectively analyzed. Those without preoperative risk factors were classified as group 1 (n = 214), and those with risk factors were classified as group 2 (n = 105). These patients were compared in terms of complications during their postoperative follow-up. The Student\u2019s t-test, ANOVA test, Mann\u2013Whitney U test, Kruskal\u2013Wallis test, chi-squared test, and Fisher\u2019s exact test were used, and p &lt; 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: When group 1 and group 2 were compared in terms of postoperative mortality, infections, bleeding complications, and biliary system complications, no statistically significant difference was found [(8.87% vs. 9.52% p = 0.62), (28.80% vs. 20.24%, p = 0.95), (6.10% vs. 8.70%, p = 0.35), (12.7% vs. 9.60% p = 0.19, respectively)]. Although bleeding complications were numerically found more frequent in patients with obesity, this difference did not reach statistical significance (23.02% vs. 6.10% p = 0.08). Conclusions: Obesity was not significantly associated with postoperative complications and may be influenced by accompanying comorbidities.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jcm15020811","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,1,20]],"date-time":"2026-01-20T09:24:34Z","timestamp":1768901074000},"page":"811","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Preoperative Metabolic Risk Factors and Outcomes in Living Donor Liver Transplant in HBV Recipients"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4918-2258","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Safiye","family":"Ko\u00e7ulu Demir","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Sancaktepe \u015eehit Prof. Dr. \u0130lhan Varank Training and Research Hospital, 34785 Istanbul, Turkey"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4083-4280","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ayfer","family":"Serin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Gastroenterology, Ba\u011fc\u0131lar Training and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, 34200 Istanbul, Turkey"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6550-358X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Birkan","family":"Bozkurt","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of General Surgery, Ba\u015fak\u015fehir \u00c7am and Sakura City Hospital, 34887 Istanbul, Turkey"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0024-1790","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ender","family":"An\u0131l\u0131r","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of General Surgery, \u00d6demi\u015f State Hospital, 35750 \u0130zmir, Turkey"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9899-1521","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yaman","family":"Tokat","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of General Surgery, Ac\u0131badem Health Group, 34394 Istanbul, Turkey"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,1,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"370","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jhep.2017.03.021","article-title":"European Association for the Study of the Liver EASL 2017 Clinical Practice Guidelines on the management of hepatitis B virus infection","volume":"67","author":"Lampertico","year":"2017","journal-title":"J. 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