Bogdan Ene‐Iordache, Norberto Perico, Boris Bikbov, Sergio Carminati et al.
BACKGROUND: Chronic kidney disease is an important cause of global mortality and morbidity. Data for epidemiological features of chronic kidney disease and its risk factors are limited for low-income and middle-income countries. The International Society of Nephrology's Kidney Disease Data Center (I...
Uta Erdbrügger, Charles J. Blijdorp, Irene V. Bijnsdorp, Francesc E. Borràs et al.
Abstract Urine is commonly used for clinical diagnosis and biomedical research. The discovery of extracellular vesicles (EV) in urine opened a new fast‐growing scientific field. In the last decade urinary extracellular vesicles (uEVs) were shown to mirror molecular processes as well as physiological...
Aminu K. Bello, Adeera Levin, Meaghan Lunney, Mohamed A. Osman et al.
OBJECTIVE: To determine the global capacity (availability, accessibility, quality, and affordability) to deliver kidney replacement therapy (dialysis and transplantation) and conservative kidney management. DESIGN: International cross sectional survey. SETTING: International Society of Nephrology (I...
Osasuyi Iyasere, Edwina A. Brown, Lina Johansson, Les Huson et al.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: In-center hemodialysis (HD) is often the default dialysis modality for older patients. Few centers use assisted peritoneal dialysis (PD), which enables treatment at home. This observational study compared quality of life (QoL) and physical function between older patients o...
Mehedi Hasan, Ipsita Sutradhar, Rajat Das Gupta, Malabika Sarker
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is becoming a major public health problem around the world. But the prevalence has not been reported in South Asian region as a whole. This study aimed to systematically review the existing data from population based studies in this region to bridge this gap. Articles pu...
Mohamed A. Osman, Mona Alrukhaimi, Gloria Ashuntantang, Ezequiel Bellorín-Font et al.
The health workforce is the cornerstone of any health care system. An adequately trained and sufficiently staffed workforce is essential to reach universal health coverage. In particular, a nephrology workforce is critical to meet the growing worldwide burden of kidney disease. Despite some attempts...
Georgi Abraham, Santosh Varughese, Thiagarajan Thandavan, Arpana Iyengar et al.
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 ...
Yeoungjee Cho, Aminu K. Bello, Adeera Levin, Meaghan Lunney et al.
Rationale & Objective Approximately 11% of people with kidney failure worldwide are treated with peritoneal dialysis (PD). This study examined PD use and practice patterns across the globe. Study Design A cross-sectional survey. Setting & Participants Stakeholders including clinicians, policy makers...
Paul Roderick, Veena Raleigh, L Hallam, N P Mallick
STUDY OBJECTIVE: The study aimed to determine the relative risk of being accepted for renal replacement treatment of black and Asian populations compared with whites in relation to age, sex, and underlying cause. The implications for population need for renal replacement therapy in these populations...
Roberto Pecoits‐Filho, Ikechi G. Okpechi, Jo‐Ann Donner, David C.H. Harris et al.
A large gap between the number of people with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) who received kidney replacement therapy (KRT) and those who needed it has been recently identified, and it is estimated that approximately one-half to three-quarters of all people with ESKD in the world may have died prema...
Zakariya Al Naamani, Kevin Gormley, Helen Noble, Olinda Santin et al.
OBJECTIVE: Patients undergoing haemodialysis may experience troubling symptoms such as fatigue, anxiety, depression and sleep quality, which may affect their quality of life. The main objective of this study is to determine the prevalence of fatigue, anxiety, depression and sleep quality among patie...
Htay Htay, Mona Alrukhaimi, Gloria Ashuntantang, Aminu K. Bello et al.
Access to essential medications and health products is critical to effective management of kidney disease. Using data from the ISN Global Kidney Health Atlas multinational cross-sectional survey, global access of patients with kidney disease to essential medications and health products was examined....
Rohini Mathur, Gavin Dreyer, Magdi Yaqoob, Sally Hull
OBJECTIVE: To determine ethnic differences in the progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and risk of end-stage renal failure (ESRF) and death in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), and to identify predictors of rapid renal decline. DESIGN: Observational community-based cohort study und...
Katherine Plewes, Hugh W. F. Kingston, Aniruddha Ghose, Richard J. Maude et al.
Intravascular hemolysis is an intrinsic feature of severe malaria pathophysiology but the pathogenic role of cell-free hemoglobin-mediated oxidative stress in severe malaria associated acute kidney injury (AKI) is unknown. As part of a prospective observational study, enrolment plasma cell-free hemo...
Arjen M. Dondorp, Shivakumar Iyer, Marcus J. Schultz
In many low-and middle-income countries, with improved public health services like sanitation and immunization, the relative contribution of curative care for critically ill patients to overall health and life expectancy has increased considerably.The importance of intensive care facilities as a glo...