Waist-to-Height Ratio Is Independently and Better Associated With Urinary Albumin Excretion Rate Than Waist Circumference or Waist-to-Hip Ratio in Chinese Adult Type 2 Diabetic Women but Not Men

Extreme obesity has been shown to be associated with focal-segmental glomerulosclerosis and nephrotic syndrome in a report of four cases (1). However, this association has not gained much attention until recently when histologically proven glomerulopathy was demonstrated in animals (2) and humans (3). The study of renal biopsy taken from humans included mostly patients with clinical proteinuria or proteinuria with renal insufficiency (3)....