According to U.S. researchers — obese people who suffer from continuously recurring kidney disease have greater risk of having a medical problem known as hyperparathyroidism in comparison to patients who have normal weight, which also increases their chances of developing heart diseases and finally leading to their death.
Hyperparathyroidism is a medical problem in which the body produces too much of parathyroid hormone thus level of parathyroid hormone (PTH) increases. Usually, the parathyroid hormone has important part to perform in the human body, it helps in maintaining the level of calcium and phosphorus in a person’s body and thus it manages the bone structure of human beings. If the level of this hormone increases than it results in causing abnormalities in your bones & thus raises the chances of cardiovascular problem and than death. Reduced functioning of kidney becomes the main reason for hyperparathyroidism in people who have the chronic kidney disease.
The study monitored nearly 496 patients who have moderate form to serious type of chronic kidney disease and these patients were also not kept on dialysis. In this study the researcher’s found that — important link exists between obesity & hyperparathyroidism. With the increase of body mass, the parathyroid hormone also gets elevated.
The lead author of this study is — Dr. Csaba P. Kovesdy. He mentioned in a prepared statement that:
We knew that in people with normal kidney function obesity leads to impairment in vitamin D metabolism and elevated PTH levels, but this phenomenon was never studied in patients with chronic kidney disease.
As obesity & hyperparathyroidism is considered to be very difficult conditions to deal with in case of chronic kidney disease, and setting up a link between these two problems is very important because of possible diagnosis and its curing suggestions.
This study appeared in the September’s addition of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
