Dr. Dorcas Angbazo, a consultant nephrologist at the National Assembly Clinic, Abuja, said on Tuesday that obesity could cause decreased functioning of the kidney, thereby leading to kidney failure.
Angbazo, who expressed concern over the high prevalence rate of obesity in the society, told the News Agency of Nigeria that living a sedentary lifestyle could be detrimental to health.
She advised people to exercise, eat healthy food and avoid eating too much salt, as they were factors that could prompt kidney failure.
She said: “It has been noticed in the health sector now that obesity is on the increase, what basically explains it is the fact that a lot of us now have adopted what we call a sedentary life style.
“We hardly do exercises; we use vehicles for a very short distant errand instead of taking walks, our diet also contribute to the obesity.
“We have a lot of fast food joints that have high fat, high salt level in their food that is what a lot of us have adopted.
“Dietary wise, we also reduced fruits and vegetables in our diet, so it cumulates or adds up to increasing rise of obesity, it is not only peculiar to Nigeria it is something that has been found worldwide.
“The information technology has not helped us, we seat long hours in front of the computer, long hours playing games on our phone, and it has distracted us from going for exercise.
“We have found out that with obesity there is associated increase in levels of hypertension, diabetes and all these cumulate to decrease kidney function.”
She said obesity was linked with heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes, among other ailments.
Angbazo said obesity was a medical condition in which excess body fat had accumulated to the extent that it could have an adverse effect on health.
Medical News Today quotes some researchers at the University of California, US, as saying that there is a strong relationship between being obese and developing end-stage renal disease or kidney failure.
The medical journal said that a long-range study indicated that people who were obese were up to a seven times at greater risk of kidney failure than normal people with normal weight.
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