Chronic kidney disease hotspots in developing countries in South Asia

Abraham, Georgi; Varughese, Santosh; Thandavan, Thiagarajan; Iyengar, Arpana; Fernando, Edwin; Yaseen Naqvi, Syed; Sheriff, Rezvi; Ur Rashid, Harun; Gopalakrishnan, Natarajan; Kumar Kafle, Rishi

doi:10.1093/ckj/sfv109

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Chronic kidney disease hotspots in developing countries in South Asia

Published in Clinical Kidney Journal • Nov 17, 2015

Authors:

Georgi Abraham

Santosh Varughese

Thiagarajan Thandavan

Abstract

In many developing countries in the South Asian region, screening for chronic diseases in the community has shown a widely varying prevalence. However, certain geographical regions have shown a high prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) of unknown etiology. This predominantly affects the young ...

Subject

Medicine

Kidney disease

Socioeconomic status

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