Reducing body weight a few pounds through diet, exercise, or surgery can help delay the decline in kidney function in patients with kidney disease. As known, obesity is associated with risk of diabetes. High blood sugar levels constant will damage tissue and cause various complications, such as heart disease, stroke, or failure kidney.
Kidney which carries about 78 litters of blood per hour serve to filter the blood from the rest of the body’s metabolism, control of body base balance, control the blood pressure, and so forth. If the blood is disrupted, vital functions are also affected.
To see how weight loss can protect the kidneys, Dr. Sankar Navaneethan from Ohio Cleveland Clinic and his team perform data collection from 13 studies that examine the impact of renal function due to weight loss.
The researchers found that the adult patients of kidney disease, who managed to lose weight thanks to diet and exercise methods, found the risk of kidney damage is called proteinuria (protein compounds in the urine) also reduced.
Settings diet and exercise to lose weight is also known to prevent decreasing of renal function in renal patients who are overweight.
On the other hand, reduction of body weight by way of expected operating speed also helps normalize kidney work in filtering the blood and body metabolism that previously had to work hard.
Delaying decrease in kidney function is not the only benefit of weight loss in obese people. Various studies have shown weight reduction also lowered the risk of various diseases, including heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, cancer, fertility problems and to abnormalities of reproductive hormones.
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