...Wang Jialin; Zhou Yi; Yuan Weijie Background: Previous studies have reported that reduced mortality rates in hemodialysis (HD) patients were negatively related to body mass index (BMI). The potentially protective effect of increased BMI in HD patients has been referred to as ‘reverse epidemiology...

... (ESRD) among a large community-based sample of adult members of the Kaiser Permanente in Northern California. They found a strong graded relationship between body mass index (BMI) and CKD and reported that a higher BMI was an independent risk factor for ESRD after adjustment for age, gender, race, blood...

... to 3: grade 0, absent; grade 1, mild; grade 2, moderate; grade 3, severe. Tubular atrophy/interstitial fibrosis was graded as follows: grade 0, absent; grade 1, 1–24%; grade 2, 25–49%; grade 3, ≥50%. Body mass index Glomerular basement membrane Glomerular hypertrophy IgA nephropathy...