Metabolic Disorders and Their Relationship with Microalbuminuria in Children and Adolescents with Obesity

Relevance of the problem. Overweight and obesity have reached epidemic proportions, affecting almost 60% of adults, with 7.9% of children under 5 years of age suffering from this pathology. At the present stage, the problem of obesity in children and adolescents has become one of the significant problems of medicine. One in three school-age children and one in four children aged 10 to 19 are overweight or obese [1]. Today it is known that obesity is also an independent risk factor for the development of chronic kidney disease (CKD) [2,3], contributing to kidney damage through direct (hemodynamic and hormonal effects of adipose tissue) and indirect (hypertension and type 2 diabetes) mechanisms [4 ]. Despite this, there is very little literature data on the structural and functional state of the kidneys based on the results of their comprehensive study using modern instrumental diagnostic methods in adolescent children with obesity. [4,5].