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| | From:  Qyzida (Original Message) | Sent: 1/13/2006 4:33 PM |
Jan 04 (Reuters) - Researchers have found yet another reason for people to watch their weight: kidney failure.
A University of California at San Francisco study released on Monday found a strong relationship between obesity and end-stage renal disease, or kidney failure.
"There are more and more people with kidney failure, but it hasn't been appreciated much that kidney failure can be a consequence of obesity," said Dr. Chi-yuan Hsu, an assistant professor of medicine and lead author of the study.
Even moderately overweight people had a higher risk of kidney failure than people whose weight was in a normal, healthy range, he said. And for the morbidly obese, the risk was more than 700 percent greater, Hsu said.
When the kidneys fail, and cannot process waste and excess fluid, the patient requires dialysis or transplantation.
The study, conducted jointly with Kaiser Permanente of Northern California Division of Research and supported by the National Institutes of Health, will be published in the Jan. 3 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.
The research is based on data from more than 320,000 Northern California Kaiser members whose height and weight were tracked between 1964 and 1985. A total of 1,471 cases of end-stage renal disease occurred among study participants during an average follow-up period of about 26 years.
Being obese or overweight was seen as a risk factor even after the researchers adjusted for high blood pressure and diabetes, other known risk factors, Hsu said.
Publish Date: January 04, 2006
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Although I am now de-certified, I worked as a Certified Hemodialysis Technologist in the past. I can tell you that kidney failure is not a pretty thing. anyway, My comment is this... Obesity has long been recognized as a major risk factor for developing hypertension and diabetes. If you take a population of renal patients and look at what caused their kidneys to fail them, you can divide them into roughly three main groups. - Diabetic Nephropathy
- Hypertensive Nephropathy
- Genetic Causes, Trauma, etc.
The last of these makes up about 10% cases and includes all causes not found in the first two. The first two are almost equally responsible for the remainder of the cases. This is why I am not surprised that their research is finding this. Blessings, Fyre |
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MM All ~ So does this mean I can blame my being over weight to having lost a kidney to pre-cancerous tumors? I can actually thank a golf ball size kidney stone and lithotripy in finding the numerous tumors that were growing all over the bottom half of my right kidney. For years and years I kept being told the pain I was experiencing was muscular. Even after 4+ toxemia and having my daughter by emergency c-section after I went into shock I was lead to believe there was nothing wrong with my kidneys. 6 years later when a stone was stuck in my left uriter that realized something was wrong with my right kidney. Doctors... And they wonder why we don't always trust them. BB, Lilly |
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Unfortunately, the loss of a kidney is probably not to blame for increased weight. he question here seems to be whether carrying ecess weight leads to kidney problems. A person can live quite normally and do fine with down to about 10% of normal function. Below that, dialysis is usually required. And no, I don't trust them doctors either. (worked for too many of them??) A friend of ours here recently had an ovarian cyst removed. The original doctor that saw her had scheduled her for appendectomy! ($$$) Granted, there are good and bad examples in any field of endeavor, but... Wasn't the focus in that field on healing patients at one time??? </minirant> -Fyre |
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| | | From: Qyzida | Sent: 2/13/2006 7:53 PM |
All I know is since I've been on metformin, my blood sugar has lowered significantly, my veins no longer feel like they have ground glass pumping thru them and peeing is nolonger an arduous and constant occurrance! YAY! Since loosing some inches, my kidneys are working much more nicely too! Qyzida |
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