Frontiers in Nutrition
Beyond donor eligibility: nutritional and lifestyle heterogeneity and implications for long-term donor health preservation
Background Blood donor eligibility is essential for donation safety, but it may not fully capture nutritional, metabolic, and lifestyle-related vulnerabilities that can affect donor health over time. As transfusion systems increasingly rely on regular donors, identifying modifiable factors that may support long-term donor health and retention is becoming increasingly relevant. This study aimed to characterize nutritional and lifestyle heterogeneity, peri-donation dietary behaviors, and donation-related outcomes in …