Assessment of obesity in chronic kidney disease: What is the best measure?

Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 641-646

  Zoccali, Carmine ^a   Torino, Claudia ^a   Tripepiand, Giovanni ^a   Mallamaci, Francesca ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

body impedance analysis; chronic kidney disease; epidemiology; obesity; overweight; skinfold thickness; waist circumference; waist to hip ratio

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ACCURACY; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY DENSITY; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; DYSLIPIDEMIA; GOLD STANDARD; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MORTALITY; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NUTRITIONAL PARAMETERS; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ADIPOSITY; ANIMALS; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; HUMANS; OBESITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RENAL DIALYSIS; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 84868205689     PISSN: 10624821     EISSN: 14736543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNH.0b013e328358a02b     Document Type: Review

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