Body mass index and causes of death in chronic kidney disease
Abstract
In chronic kidney disease (CKD), a higher body mass index (BMI) is associated with a lower risk for death, but cause-specific death details are unknown across the BMI range. To define this, we studied 54,506 patients with CKD (stage 3 CKD- [91.5%]) from an institutional electronic medical record based-registry. We examined the associations among various causes of death (cardiovascular-, malignancy- and noncardiovascular/nonmalignancy-related...
Paper Details
Title
Body mass index and causes of death in chronic kidney disease
Published Date
Mar 1, 2016
Journal
Volume
89
Issue
3
Pages
675 - 682
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