Relationship of Serum Kallistatin Level With Arterial Stiffness and Metabolic Parameters in Obesity-Related Chronic Kidney Disease.

Objectives: We investigated the relationship between serum kallistatin and kidney disease and proteinuria in nondiabetic obesity-related chronic kidney disease and observed the effects on arterial stiffness.

Materials And Methods: We included 40 patients with nondiabetic obesity-related chronic kidney disease followed in our nephrology clinic and a control group of 40 participants without chronic kidney disease matched by age, sex, and mean body mass index (measured as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared). Pulse-wave velocity and augmentation index were measured oscillometrically by pulse-wave analysis (Mobil-O-Graph) by the same operator.