Epidemiology and risk factors of chronic kidney disease in India – results from the SEEK (Screening and Early Evaluation of Kidney Disease) study

Singh, Ajay; Farag, Youssef; V. Mittal, Bharati; Karai Subramanian, Kuyilan; Ram Keithi Reddy, Sai; N Acharya, Vidya; Almeida, Alan; Channakeshavamurthy, Anil; Ballal, HS; Gaccione, Peter; Issacs, Rajan; Jasuja, Sanjiv; Kirpalani, Ashok; Kher, Vijay; K. Modi, Gopesh; Nainan, Georgy; Prakash, Jai; Singh Rana, Devinder; Sreedhara, Rajanna; Kumar Sinha, Dilip; Bharat, S.; Sunder, S.; Kumar Sharma, Raj; Seetharam, Sridevi; Ravi Raju, Tatapudi; Rajapurkar, Mohan

doi:10.1186/1471-2369-14-114

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Epidemiology and risk factors of chronic kidney disease in India – results from the SEEK (Screening and Early Evaluation of Kidney Disease) study

Published in BMC Nephrology • May 28, 2013

Authors:

Ajay Singh

Youssef Farag

Bharati V. Mittal

Abstract

BACKGROUND: There is a rising incidence of chronic kidney disease that is likely to pose major problems for both healthcare and the economy in future years. In India, it has been recently estimated that the age-adjusted incidence rate of ESRD to be 229 per million population (pmp), and >100,000 new ...

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Medicine

Nephrology

Epidemiology

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