From MedpageToday.com
By Charlene Laino, Senior Writer, Gupta Guide
Published: April 04, 2013
Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Avoiding excess weight gain in childhood and young adulthood could prevent many cases of chronic kidney disease later in life, researchers reported.
"A study of over 5,000 children born in 1946 found that more than one-third of chronic kidney disease cases at age 60 to 64 years in the U.S. could be avoided if nobody became overweight until at least that age," reported Richard Silverwood, PhD, of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and colleagues.
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