Impact of Misclassification of Obesity by Body Mass Index on Mortality in Patients With CKD

INTRODUCTION: Unlike the general population, a higher body mass index (BMI) is associated with greater survival among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). This “obesity paradox” may be due to limitations of BMI as a measure of adiposity in CKD. Both BMI and body fat percentage (BF%) are used...

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Autores principales: Lin, Ting-Yun, Lim, Paik-Seong, Hung, Szu-Chun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
Materias:
Clinical Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5932305/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29725649
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ekir.2017.12.009

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