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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Clin North Am. 2012 Nov 27;97(1):59–74. doi: 10.1016/j.mcna.2012.10.010

Figure 1. Clustering of risk factors for obesity-related renal disease.

Figure 1

Obesity, type 2 diabetes (T2DM), hypertension (HT) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) are all risk factors for chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage renal disease (ESRD). The presence of one or more of these risk factors multiplies the overall risk for disease development and progression.