Association between obesity and kidney disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

By Youfa Wang, Xiaoli Chen, Y. Song, B. Caballero, L. Cheskin. Kidney International, 2008

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Epidemiology of chronic kidney disease in children (2011, background): “There is clear evidence in adults that obesity is associated with an increased risk of development and progression of kidney disease [68].”
Body-mass index and cause-specific mortality in 900 000 adults: collaborative analyses of 57 prospective studies (2009, neutral): “…or logistic regression, with adjustment for study, baseline age (in 10-year groups), and baseline smoking (three groups: current cigarette smoker [32%]; never smoked any type of tobacco regularly [35%]; and other smoker, ex-smoker of any type of tobacco, or unknown [8%, 19%, and 5%, respectively]).”