the impact of obesity on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in chronic kidney disease (cKD) population has not been elucidated, despite the impairment of HRQoL in the obese among general population. We hypothesized that the impact of obesity on HRQoL might be confounded by impaired renal function in cKD population, and that cKD would attenuate the impact of obesity on HRQoL. to compare the impact of obesity on HRQoL according to kidney function, 17,001 subjects from Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2008-2011) were categorized by estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), as follows: group 1, eGFR ≥ 90 mL/min/1.73 m 2 ; group 2, eGFR of 60-89 mL/min/1.73 m 2 ; group 3, eGFR < 60 mL/min/1.73 m 2 . the association between obesity parameters (body mass index, waist circumference and, truncal fat mass) and HRQoL parameters (eQ-5D index and EQ-VAS) were cross-sectionally analyzed. Despite robust correlations between obesity parameters and low EQ-5D index or EQ-VAS in general population, no significant association was observed in group 3 population. Impact of obesity on HRQoL in CKD population was only limitedly observed in the mobility domain of EQ-5D, as mobility limitation was associated with increased body mass index or waist circumference regardless of kidney function. therefore, the impact of obesity on HRQoL seems significantly attenuated in CKD population, suggesting that the risk of obesity should not be over-estimated in patients with cKD, especially with respect to HRQoL.Obesity imposes a great burden on the public health globally, as it increases the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease, cerebrovascular accident, and malignancy, and is subsequently associated with high cardiovascular and all-cause mortalities 1-3 . Especially, central obesity, defined by waist circumference (WC) or WC to height ratio, more precisely predicts cardiovascular risk factors than body mass index (BMI) does 4 . The concept, metabolically healthy obesity, introduced broad spectral phenotypes of obesity and emphasized the importance of anatomical distribution of body fat 5 . Indeed, various indices from direct measurement of regional fat mass 6 or from calculation of more than 2 anatomical fat deposits 7 have proved their superiority over BMI on estimating the risk of cardiovascular events. On the basis of conceptual advances, novel links between obesity and human diseases are now being uncovered.Kidney is a target of obesity 8 , as evidences suggest that conditions related to obesity, such as insulin resistance 9 , up-regulation of leptin 10 , or down-regulation of adiponectin 11 , promote glomerular injury and albuminuria, leading to the decline of kidney function. Nevertheless, clinical studies have not concluded the impact of obesity on CKD progression. A cohort study including more than 450,000 nondialysis-dependent subjects reported U-shaped association of BMI and clinical outcomes with the best in overweight and mildly obese patients, rather than in patients with ideal body weig...