Obesity can do more harm than we can imagine. It’s not just about the lifestyle related health issues, but also may also cause some severe, inner ailments. Some of this prominent ailments are diabetes, hypertension, high cholestrol, fatty liver, gall bladder, sleep apnea, cardiac disease and many other cancers diseases. The worst among these is, obesity can affect directly on kidneys.
Keeping this in cohesion, this year’s world kidney day theme is about, “Obesity and Kidney disease: Healthy lifestyle for healthy kidneys”. More than 50 percent of kidney failure cases are of diabetic patients. The considerable thing here is, these patients are overweight and suffer from issues of obesity.
The International Federation of Kidney Foundation have stated that obesity will have massive affect on the lifestyles by the year 2025. This will include 18 per cent men and 21 percent women in it. The most affected from obesity are those who dwell in urban areas.
Kidneys play an important role of filtering blood to part away urine from it. This plays an important role of extracting waste out of body. With maintaining a fluid balance, the procedure also maintains the levels of ions which are also called electrolytes.
Kidneys also play a crucial role in absorption of water, glucose and amino acids.
Dr. P Sririam Naveen is consultant nephrologist from Mycure Hospital mentioned, “With sedentary lifestyle, smartphone and fast food culture catching up, obesity has become a global problem. Though worldwide, a person with Body Mass Index (BMI) more than 30 is considered obese and BMI more than 25 is considered overweight, for smaller-built Asians, BMI more than 27.5 is considered obese and more than 23 is considered overweight. For every one point increase in BMI, the risk for developing chronic kidney disease (CKD) goes up by 7-10 per cent. Among those coming to us with kidney ailments, we find out of every 10 patients 3-4 are overweight and obese. People of all ages can be afflicted by kidney disease but those in their 20s and 30s are also at risk besides children as obesity is noticed among the young generation as well.”
