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Body Mass Index and Risk for End-Stage Renal Disease
- Chi-yuan Hsu, MD, MSc;
- Carlos Iribarren, MD, MPH, PhD; and
- Alan S. Go, MD
- From the University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-0532, and Kaiser Permanente of Northern California, Oakland, CA 94612-2304.
IN RESPONSE:
We thank Drs. Thorp, Kalantar-Zadeh, and Kopple for their interest in our study, in which we showed that increased baseline BMI is a strong risk factor for ESRD. They questioned whether persons with CKD who are obese have paradoxically better survival than those who are not …
