Maintaining a healthy weight is not only important for the parents but also children and adolescents. Adolescents who are obese and overweight have a higher risk of renal disease in adulthood. The good news, risk can be reduced if the teenager can lose weight. The results of this study add to a long row of proof of the importance of alert to the risk of obesity since childhood.
"The rate of obesity and overweight increased rapidly in children. If this condition can be stopped, the impact is very positive. Effort to lose weight in children is not easy because they prefer to eat vegetables instead of sugary drinks," said Johansen Dr.Kirsten, researchers.
Research on the health effects of obesity for renal conducted by a team led Dr.Asaf Vivante which collects data on nearly 1.2 million children aged 17 years. Respondents are teenagers who will take the test military in Israel between January 1967 and December 1997. The researchers then connect these young people with the condition documentation of end-stage renal disease. During the 30 years of the study period, they found 700 men and 160 women suffering from end-stage renal failure.
Vivante estimate the risk of renal failure increased six-fold in those who are overweight and 19-fold in those who were obese. Interestingly, the risk of kidney disease was not only higher in those who suffer from diabetes but also healthy people without diabetes. Even so, according to Dr.David Katz, director of the Yale University Prevention Research Center said that the weight is not the sole factor trigger kidney disease. "Another factor involved is the lifestyle or the environment," he said.
