Obesity and Diabetes Linked to Kidney Failure

Americans are more likely to have chronic kidney disease progress to life-threatening end-stage disease than are Norwegians of similar age and health at the beginning of the progression.

Norwegian doctor Stein Hallan links this finding to the fact that Americans are more likely to be very overweight and to have (probably because of the weight) a higher incidence of type 2 diabetes.  He emphasizes the important of early referral to a nephrologist.  See the summary in HealthDay here.

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