Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease
Volume 13, Issue 4 , Pages 421-427 , October 2006

A History of Obesity, or How What Was Good Became Ugly and Then Bad

  • Garabed Eknoyan

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to G. Eknoyan, MD, Department of Medicine (523-D), Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030.

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PII: S1548-5595(06)00106-6

doi: 10.1053/j.ackd.2006.07.002

Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease
Volume 13, Issue 4 , Pages 421-427 , October 2006