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Obesity is often linked to heart disease, hypertension and diabetes.
Now, researchers are adding kidney failure to of dangers resulting from obesity, as new research finds that obese people have up to a seven times greater risk of developing end-stage renal disease, more simply known as kidney failure.
The study, conducted by researchers from the University of California-San Francisco and Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research, is based on data derived from over 320,000 California Kaiser members whose height and weight were measured during health checkups between 1964 and 1985. As a part of the study researchers calculated the body mass index (BMI) of study participants and found that those with a higher BMI were at greater risk of kidney failure.
Chi-yuan Hsu, M.D., assistant professor of medicine at UCSF and lead author of the study, said that 'overweight' study participants also exhibited increased the risk of kidney failure; 1.87 times, or 90 percent greater, than that of normal weight participants.
"There are more and more people with kidney failure, but it hasn't been appreciated much that kidney failure can be a consequence of obesity. We think this study is important because it demonstrates quite convincingly that people who are obese or overweight are at much higher risk of kidney failure."
"If you are mildly overweight, not even frankly obese, you are roughly 90 percent more likely to develop end-stage renal failure," states in the paper, which is to be published in the latest issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.
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