Meeting
Abstract Number: 257
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: The Obesity Paradox postulates that obesity is a protective factor against mortality in certain chronic conditions such as chronic kidney disease (CKD) and congestive heart failure. Although this paradox is established in CKD, few studies have analyzed the paradox in acute kidney injury (AKI). There are both short and long term ramifications to AKI […]