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.
