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.
Department of Internal Medicine, Ruperto Carola University, Heidelberg, Germany
Address reprint requests to Professor Eberhard Ritz, Sektion Nephrologie, Klinikum der Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 162, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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