‘Complex’ relationship between obesity, CKD requires early, aggressive treatment

Increased fat mass, particularly visceral adiposity, promotes kidney disease generation and progression through direct and indirect mechanisms, and pharmacologic treatment is necessary to avoid adverse outcomes, according to a speaker.

“The direct mechanisms that you and I treat in the office everyday are BP, cholesterol and diabetes,” Matthew Weir, MD, professor and chief of the division of nephrology at University of Maryland School of Medicine, said during a presentation at the World Congress on Insulin Resistance, Diabetes & Cardiovascular Disease. Read more in Healio.