Dysregulated lipid metabolism is associated with kidney allograft fibrosis.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThe use of human kidney tissue in this study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University (ID: 2022 − 166). Written informed consent was obtained from all transplant recipients. Animal handling was approved by the Sun Yat-sen University’s Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (ID: SYSU-IACUC-2023-000443). Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare that they have no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests."

"Funding This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81871257), the Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation (2018A030313612), and the “Keling New Star” talent project of The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University (Y50176)."