A single number for advocacy and communication—worldwide more than 850 million individuals have kidney diseases

J. Jager, Kitty; P. Kövesdy, Csaba; G. Langham, Robyn; E. Rosenberg, Mark; Jha, Vivekanand; Zoccali, Carmine

doi:10.1093/ndt/gfz174

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A single number for advocacy and communication—worldwide more than 850 million individuals have kidney diseases

Published in Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation • Jul 29, 2019

Authors:

Kitty J. Jager

Csaba P. Kövesdy

Robyn G. Langham

Abstract

On a world scale the total number of individuals with chronic kidney disease (CKD), acute kidney injury (AKI) and those on renal replacement therapy (RRT) exceeds 850 million, a truly concerning figure that is twice the estimated number of people with diabetes worldwide and >20 times higher than the...

Subject

Medicine

Kidney disease

Environmental health

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