Recent research review suggests that infants born with low birth weight are eventually more prone to develop kidney disease in their adulthood. Many studies found link between low birth weight and life threatening health problems like high blood pressure, kidney disease and possibly diabetes.

One theory suggests that restricted fetal growth during gestational period, whether it is due to lack of good nutrition and due to any other factor, can make certain organs in our body to become more vulnerable to diseases.

Some researchers speculate that low-birth-weight infants — those weighing less than 5.5 pounds at birth — may become susceptible to kidney disease as adults because they have fewer and smaller kidney structures called nephrons.

Normally, each kidney has roughly one million nephrons, which are the basic filtering units of the kidneys, extracting waste from the blood and producing urine.

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