News & Events: Kidney Failure

UCSF News reports on the relationship between obesity and the development of kidney failure: Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco have determined that there is a strong relationship between being obese 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 consequence of obesity. "There are more and more people with kidney [...]