Obesity and kidney disease: hidden consequences of the epidemic

Pediatr Nephrol. 2017 Apr;32(4):537-545. doi: 10.1007/s00467-017-3595-6. Epub 2017 Feb 1.

Authors

Csaba P Kovesdy^{1

2}, Susan L Furth³, Carmine Zoccali⁴; World Kidney Day Steering Committee

Collaborators

World Kidney Day Steering Committee:
Philip Kam Tao Li, Guillermo Garcia-Garcia, Mohammed Benghanem-Gharbi, Rik Bollaert, Sophie Dupuis, Timur Erk, Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, Csaba Kovesdy, Charlotte Osafo, Miguel C Riella, Elena Zakharova

Affiliations

¹ Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA.
² Nephrology Section, Memphis VA Medical Center, Memphis, TN, USA.
³ Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
⁴ CNR - IFC Clinical Epidemiology and Pathophysiology of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, Reggio, Calabria, Italy.

PMID: 28188438
DOI: 10.1007/s00467-017-3595-6

No abstract available

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Child
Child, Preschool
Female
Humans
Kidney / physiopathology
Kidney Diseases / epidemiology
Kidney Diseases / etiology*
Male
Obesity / complications*
Obesity / epidemiology
Risk Factors
Young Adult