Monday, July 18, 2016

Kidney failure the newest red-meat scare




Add kidney failure to the alarms that have surfaced about eating red meats.

A team at Duke-NUS Medical School says its study of 63,257 Chinese adults in Singapore leads to the conclusion that pork consumption is associated with much higher rates of kidney failure.

However, including other proteins from time to time may reduce the risk, they say.

The researchers, led by Woon-Puay Koh, studied the group of people from Singapore for 15.5 years; 978 per cent of their meat diet was pork.

Those who are the highest amounts of red meat had a 40 percent increased risk of developing ESRD (renal, or kidney, disease) compared with people consuming the lowest amounts.

In addition, substituting one serving of red meat with other sources of protein reduced the risk of ESRD by up to 62 percent, they found.
The research is published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

Earlier this year studies linked red meats to cancer, but critics then said the research was flawed.