Seminars in Nephrology
Volume 29, Issue 5 , Pages 504-511, September 2009

Obesity and Chronic Kidney Disease

    Prof. Dr.
  • Eberhard Ritz

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Professor Eberhard Ritz, Sektion Nephrologie, Klinikum der Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 162, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
  • , Dr.
  • Nadezda Koleganova

Department of Internal Medicine, Ruperto Carola University, Heidelberg, Germany

Summary 

This article summarizes the current hypotheses that link visceral obesity and kidney malfunction and provides information on the epidemiology and renal pathology resulting from visceral obesity.

Keywords: Obesity, visceral obesity, chronic kidney disease, end-stage kidney disease

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PII: S0270-9295(09)00102-8

doi:10.1016/j.semnephrol.2009.06.007

Seminars in Nephrology
Volume 29, Issue 5 , Pages 504-511, September 2009