Besides heart disease, body shape 'Apple' also at risk exposed this disease

Body shape 'Apple'

You have a body shape 'apple'? If so, you need to be alert. Because based on the results of the study, a person with a body shape 'apple' is not only the risk of cardiovascular problems, but also kidney problems.

This was revealed in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, where it has been found signs of kidney problems, even in people with a body shape 'apple' who feel healthy. Therefore, experts from the United States asserts that people need to be more concerned about the health of their kidneys.

Research conducted by a team of University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands, this involves more than 300 people, good of normal weight, or whose weight is excessive.

As a result, it was found that those who had a waist-hip-ratio was higher, ie in people with a body shape 'apple', had lower kidney function. This resulted in reduced blood flow to the kidneys and blood pressure in the kidney becomes high. These cases also occur in those who declared healthy.

"We found that people with body shape 'apple', even with healthy situation and a normal blood pressure, still had high blood pressure in the kidneys," said Arjan Kwakernaak, chairman of the research team.

"The situation will more severe if they are overweight," he continued.

These findings indicate that people can take some measures to lower blood pressure his kidneys, for example with reducing the levels of salt and using medications.

"We previously has been understand that obesity in a person with a body shape 'apple' more at risk exposed by cardiovascular disease compared with the body 'pear'," said a spokeswoman for Kidney Research UK.

"But the results of this research indicate that the same thing is also applies to kidney disease," he added.

He also added that this is further evidence the existence of the relationship between obesity and growth problems on the kidney disease. Still many that must be done to make people realize the importance of maintaining the kidney function.