Abdominal Obesity, Race and Chronic Kidney Disease in Young Adults: Results from NHANES 1999-2010.

Abdominal Obesity, Race and Chronic Kidney Disease in Young Adults: Results from NHANES 1999-2010.

OBJECTIVE:Kidney dysfunction in obesity may be independent of and may precede the development of hypertension and/or diabetes mellitus. We aimed to examine if abdominal obesity is associated with early markers of CKD in a young healthy population and whether these associations differ by race and/or...

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Main Authors: Harini Sarathy, Gabriela Henriquez, Matthew K Abramowitz, Holly Kramer, Sylvia E Rosas, Tanya Johns, Juhi Kumar, Amy Skversky, Frederick Kaskel, Michal L Melamed
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4880194?pdf=render

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