According to the 'lipid nephrotoxicity hypothesis', hyperlipidemia resulting from physiological compensatory synthesis of lipoproteins in response to urinary loss of albumin can itself cause or aggravate glomerular and tubulointerstitial disease. Ruan and colleagues discuss the evidence on the mutual influence that dysregulation of lipid homeostasis and renal disease exert on each other and how such evidence confirms, qualifies and modifies the lipid nephrotoxicity hypothesis.
- Xiong Z. Ruan
- Zac Varghese
- John F. Moorhead
