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Yet another potential consequence of the epidemic of obesity has been revealed by a California study.
 
Even the moderately overweight have double the risk of kidney disease, with the morbidly obese falling ill at 7 times the rate of the non-obese.
 
Obesity remained a significant risk factor even when the effects of high blood pressure and diabetes, other consequences of obesity, were factored out.

Obesity a Risk Factor in Kidney Failure

eMaxHealth.com - 3/21/2006 9:18 AM

Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco have determined that there is a strong relationship between obesity and developing end-stage renal disease, or kidney failure.
 
The long-range study found that the obese have up to a seven times greater risk of kidney failure than normal weight people, suggesting that obesity should be considered a risk factor for the condition and that kidney failure is yet another consequ
 
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