These lifestyle choices can reduce the risk of chronic kidney disease


Date:
September 2, 2020
Source:
Karolinska Institutet
Summary:
Active lifestyle choices such as eating vegetables, exercising and
quitting smoking can reduce the risk of chronic kidney disease,
a new study finds.



FULL STORY ========================================================================== Active lifestyle choices such as eating vegetables, exercising and
quitting smoking can reduce the risk of chronic kidney disease, a new
study led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and Griffith University in Australia, reports. The study is published in The Journal
of the American Society of Nephrology.


========================================================================== About 10 percent of the world population suffers from some kind of chronic kidney disease. In 2017, more than 1.2 million people were estimated to
have died as a direct result of their kidney disease and another 1.4
million of the cardiovascular complications caused by reduced kidney
function.

Despite these alarming figures, there is no evidence-based guidance
on what lifestyle changes can help to prevent kidney disease from
occurring. Current advice to patients is based on how to prevent other diseases, such as hypertension and cardiovascular disease, which are
considered important causes of kidney damage.

The researchers have conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of
more than 100 published research papers to investigate which lifestyle
changes can lower the risk of kidney disease.

The study included more than 2.5 million healthy people from 16
countries. Of particular interest to the researchers were the effects
of diet, exercise, tobacco smoking and alcohol on the risk of developing
kidney problems.

"We discovered that lifestyle plays a big role and identified a number of recommendations that can be conveyed to healthy people wanting to reduce
their risk of developing chronic kidney disease," says Dr Jaimon Kelly,
a postdoctoral research fellow at Griffith University.

The advice includes a more vegetable-rich diet, a higher potassium
intake, more exercise, less alcohol consumption, less salt consumption
and quitting smoking.

Adherence to these recommendations could reduce the risk of chronic
kidney disease by between 14 and 22 percent.

"In the absence of randomised intervention studies in the field, this
study is the best evidence we have to date on what lifestyle choices can
help for primary prevention of kidney disease," says Juan Jesus Carrero, professor of epidemiology at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet. "The results can be used in the development of public health recommendations and in discussions with
patients on how to lower their risk of kidney disease." The researchers
stress that the advice applies to healthy people at risk of developing
kidney problems, and that people who are already suffering from kidney
disease are to follow other lifestyle recommendations to avoid unnecessary strain on their kidneys.

The study was financed by several parties, including the Swedish
Research Council and the European Renal Association-European Dialysis
and Transplantation Association (ERA-EDTA).


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========================================================================== Journal Reference:
1. Jaimon T. Kelly, Guobin Su, La Zhang, Xindong Qin, Skye Marshall,
Ailema
Gonza'lez-Ortiz, Catherine M. Clase, Katrina L. Campbell, Hong
Xu, Juan- Jesus Carrero. Modifiable Lifestyle Factors for Primary
Prevention of CKD: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Journal
of the American Society of Nephrology, 2020; ASN.2020030384 DOI:
10.1681/ASN.2020030384 ==========================================================================

Link to news story: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200902095136.htm

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