Body mass index and implications for pediatric kidney health: a cross-sectional study with urinary biomarkers.
Sameera Chathuranga GunasekaraPallage Mangala Chathura Surendra De SilvaE P S ChandanaSudheera JayasingheChula HerathSisira SiribaddanaNishad JayasundaraPublished in: Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) (2023)
According to the present study, these findings do not produce plausibly strong evidence to establish a potential association of BMI with altered kidney function in the studied pediatric communities. Particularly, a likelihood of abnormal kidney health outcomes associated with undernutrition is apparent in severely thin girls. However, in-depth studies are warranted to develop a comprehensive understanding of the associations of nutritional status with pediatric kidney health in Sri Lanka. A higher resolution version of the Graphical abstract is available as Supplementary information.