Kalantar-Zadeh, Kamyar

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Name (Latin)
Kalantar-Zadeh, Kamyar
Other forms of name
Kalantar, Kam
Zadeh, Kamyar Kalantar-
Date of birth
1963-11-11
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Epidemiology
Nephrology
Occupation
College teachers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 298829171
Wikidata: Q6359924
Library of congress: n 2013181337
Sources of Information
  • Nutritional management of renal disease, 2013:t.p. (Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine, Orange, California and UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California)
  • UCLA Fielding School of Public Health website, viewed December 4, 2023:faculty page (Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh; Kam Kalantar; Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Epidemiology Department; during 2000-2012, served as a faculty nephrologist at Harbor-UCLA and was appointed Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics and Epidemiology at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and Fielding School of Public Health; since August 2012, chief of the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension at UC Irvine Medical Center; PhD, Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley; MPH, Public Health, University of California, Berkeley; MD, Medicine, University of Bonn, Germany)
  • Nutritional management of renal disease, 2013:t.p. (Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine, Orange, California amd UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California)

Wikipedia description:

Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh (born October 1963) is a US American physician doing research in nephrology, kidney dialysis, nutrition, and epidemiology. He is best known as a specialist in kidney disease nutrition and chronic kidney disease and for his hypothesis about the longevity of individuals with chronic disease states, also known as reverse epidemiology including obesity paradox. According to this hypothesis, obesity or hypercholesterolemia may counterintuitively be protective and associated with greater survival in certain groups of people, such as elderly individuals, dialysis patients, or those with chronic disease states and wasting syndrome (cachexia), whereas normal to low body mass index or normal values of serum cholesterol may be detrimental and associated with worse mortality. Kalantar-Zadeh is also known for his expertise in kidney dialysis therapy, including incremental dialysis, as well as renal nutrition. He is the brother of Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh, who is an Australian scientist involved in research in the fields of materials sciences, nanotechnology, and transducers.

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