TY - JOUR
T1 - Obesity and kidney disease
T2 - hidden consequences of the epidemic
AU - Kovesdy, Csaba P.
AU - Furth, Susan L.
AU - Zoccali, Carmine
AU - Tao Li, Philip Kam
AU - Garcia-Garcia, Guillermo
AU - Benghanem-Gharbi, Mohammed
AU - Bollaert, Rik
AU - Dupuis, Sophie
AU - Erk, Timur
AU - Kalantar-Zadeh, Kamyar
AU - Kovesdy, Csaba
AU - Osafo, Charlotte
AU - Riella, Miguel C.
AU - Zakharova, Elena
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 World Kidney Day 2017 Steering Committee
PY - 2017/2/1
Y1 - 2017/2/1
N2 - Obesity is a growing worldwide epidemic. Obesity is one of the strongest risk factors for new-onset chronic kidney disease, and also for nephrolithiasis and for kidney cancer. This year the World Kidney Day promotes education on the harmful consequences of obesity and its association with kidney disease, advocating healthy lifestyle and health policy measures that make preventive behaviors an affordable option.
AB - Obesity is a growing worldwide epidemic. Obesity is one of the strongest risk factors for new-onset chronic kidney disease, and also for nephrolithiasis and for kidney cancer. This year the World Kidney Day promotes education on the harmful consequences of obesity and its association with kidney disease, advocating healthy lifestyle and health policy measures that make preventive behaviors an affordable option.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.kint.2016.10.019
DO - 10.1016/j.kint.2016.10.019
M3 - Editorial
C2 - 28010887
AN - SCOPUS:85008210602
SN - 0085-2538
VL - 91
SP - 260
EP - 262
JO - Kidney International
JF - Kidney International
IS - 2
ER -