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01-03-2019 | IM-COMMENTARY
Chronic kidney disease in low-middle income populations: a call to action for screening and prevention
Authors:
Anna Paini, Massimo Salvetti, Silvio Caligaris, Francesco Castelli, Maria Lorenza Muiesan
Published in:
Internal and Emergency Medicine
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Issue 2/2019
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Excerpt
It has been estimated that about 5–10 million people die each year from kidney disease. The incidence and the prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) are increasing worldwide. The true burden of kidney disease should be better assessed and prevented; in fact this worldwide health problem is probably underestimated, because of the relative lack of epidemiological data, the poor awareness of the problem, and the limited access to laboratory examinations for most of the general population in low-middle income countries [
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4]. A recent analysis of all the available studies published between 2008 and 2014, reporting the prevalence of CKD in Nigeria, finds a high prevalence of CKD in the country, ranging from 2.5 to 26%, with a high variability according to the examined population, but probably also influenced by the equation used to estimate the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) [
5]. …
