In a study of 206 hypertensive predialysis CKD patients whose BMI and waist circumference were assessed annually for 3 years, both BMI and waist circumference were associated with left ventricular mass in CKD stage 1 to 3 but not in CKD stage 4 or 5, after adjusting for age, sex, primary renal disease, smoking and history of cardiovascular disease. In a longitudinal analysis, both an increase in BMI and waist circumference were associated with an increase in left ventricular mass. The findings are published inNephrology Dialysis Transplantation.
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