American Journal of Kidney Diseases
Volume 52, Issue 1 , Pages 39-48 , July 2008

Overweight, Obesity, and the Development of Stage 3 CKD: The Framingham Heart Study

  • Meredith C. Foster, BA

      Affiliations

    • Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Framingham, MA
    • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
    • ,
  • Shih-Jen Hwang, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Framingham, MA
    • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
    • ,
  • Martin G. Larson, ScD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University, Boston, MA
    • ,
  • Judith H. Lichtman, PhD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Division of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT
    • ,
  • Nisha I. Parikh, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
    • ,
  • Ramachandran S. Vasan, MD

      Affiliations

    • Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
    • ,
  • Daniel Levy, MD

      Affiliations

    • Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Framingham, MA
    • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
    • ,
  • Caroline S. Fox, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Framingham, MA
    • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
    • Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Hypertension, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to Caroline S. Fox, MD, MPH, Framingham Heart Study, 73 Mt Wayte Ave, Ste 2, Framingham, MA 01702.

Received 20 November 2007 ,Accepted 3 March 2008.

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 Originally published online as doi:10.1053/j.ajkd.2008.03.003 on April 25, 2008.

PII: S0272-6386(08)00575-1

doi: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2008.03.003

American Journal of Kidney Diseases
Volume 52, Issue 1 , Pages 39-48 , July 2008

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