In this study, we aimed to investigate whether the application of early postoperative basal insulin therapy for the prevention of PTDM might affect HRQOL compared with standard care in KTR using long-term, protocoled HRQOL data obtained in the Insulin Therapy for the Prevention of New Onset Diabetes after Transplantation (ITP-NODAT) study [27]. Here, INS is linked to autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura.