Body surface area-based kidney length percentiles misdiagnose small kidneys in children with overweight/obesity.

Pierluigi MarzuilloGemma Carreras-BadosaJosé-María Martínez-CalcerradaStefano GuarinoPier Luigi PalmaDelfina PetroneEmanuele Miraglia Del GiudiceJudit BassolsAbel López-Bermejo

Published in: Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) (2022)

BSA-based percentiles underestimate KL in children with OW/OB. In these subjects, the use of height-based or iBSA-based percentiles should be preferred. A higher resolution version of the Graphical abstract is available as Supplementary information.

Keyphrases

weight loss
young adults
weight gain
metabolic syndrome
body mass index
insulin resistance
physical activity
adipose tissue
high fat diet induced