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Prevalence and determinants of chronic kidney disease in northeast of Iran: Results of the Golestan cohort study.

Sadaf G SepanlouHamid BarahimiIraj NajafiFarin KamangarHossein PoustchiRamin ShakeriMonir Sadat HakemiAkram PourshamsMasoud KhoshniaAbdolsamad GharraviBehrooz BroumandAli Nobakht-HaghighiKamyar Kalantar-ZadehReza Malekzadeh
Published in: PloS one (2017)
One in four people in this cohort had low eGFR. Obesity and overweight, diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidemia are major risk factors for CKD. Halting the increase in waist circumference and blood pressure may be as important as reducing the current levels.
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