Body roundness index and mortality risk in patients with chronic kidney disease: moving beyond the obesity paradox
Higher BRI was independently associated with increased all-cause and cardiovascular mortality risk among patients with CKD, offering greater prognostic value for risk stratification than BMI or WC.
Authors
- Guobin Su (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5073-9848)
- Ron T. Gansevoort
- Changyuan Yang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7153-9159)
- David Wayne Johnson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5491-3460)
- Priya Vart (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5576-820X)
- Bin Liao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9797-7181)
Institutions
- Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine (CN)
- University Medical Center Groningen (NL)
- The University of Queensland (AU)
- University of Groningen (NL)
- Princess Alexandra Hospital (AU)
- Karolinska Institutet (SE)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases (AU)
- Kidney Health Australia (AU)
- Princess Alexandra Hospital (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
- Published
- 2025-11-08
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ndt/gfaf237
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.43
Funders
- Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Karolinska Institutet
- National Science and Technology Major Project
- Sanming Project of Medicine in Shenzhen