How to manage obesity in people with kidney disease is the focus of new guidance published by the American Society of Nephrology.
Researchers from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville have published the new recommendations to improve the lives of those living with both obesity and kidney disease.
They have revealed that people with kidney disease and obesity are at higher risk of having poor psychosocial functioning.
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Meanwhile, those with kidney disease who lose weight are more likely to have a better quality of life compared to people with obesity, the findings have reported.
A multidisciplinary team and a combination of multiple interventions are normally required to manage obesity in people with kidney disease.
According to the researchers, implementing a healthy lifestyle should be the first-line therapy for weight loss.
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People with obesity and kidney disease can also safely use antiobesity medications, experts have said.
The authors said: “Although the evidence for appropriate management of obesity is expanding in patients living with kidney diseases, gaps in knowledge and implementations require attention.”
Read the study in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
