Vivekanand Jha, Harun Ur Rashid, Sanjay Kumar Agarwal, Syed Fazal Akhtar et al.
Kidney disease attributable deaths and disability-adjusted life years have risen rapidly in South Asia. Diabetes is the commonest cause of kidney disease, but a substantial burden of disease is due to unmeasured risk-factors. Supported by governments, dialysis is growing but needs better oversight. ...
Raja Ramachandran, Vinant Bhargava, Sanjiv Jasuja, Maurizio Gallieni et al.
South and Southeast Asia is the most populated, heterogeneous part of the world. The Association of Vascular Access and InTerventionAl Renal physicians (AVATAR Foundation), India, gathered trends on epidemiology and Interventional Nephrology (IN) for this region. The countries were divided as upper-...
Smita Divyaveer, Raja Ramachandran, Manisha Sahay, Dibya Singh Shah et al.
Information about disease burden and the available infrastructure and workforce to care for patients with kidney disease was collected for the second edition of the International Society of Nephrology Global Kidney Health Atlas. This paper presents findings for the 8 countries in the South Asia regi...
Vinant Bhargava, Sanjiv Jasuja, Sydney Tang, Anil Kumar Bhalla et al.
BACKGROUND: Peritoneal dialysis (PD) as a modality of kidney replacement therapy (KRT) is largely underutilized globally. We analyzed PD utilization, impact of economic status, projected growth and impact of state policy(s) on PD growth in South Asia and Southeast Asia (SA&SEA) region. METHODS: The ...
Suceena Alexander, Sanjiv Jasuja, Maurizio Gallieni, Manisha Sahay et al.
Background. The association between economic status and kidney disease is incompletely explored even in countries with higher economy (HE); the situation is complex in lower economies (LE) of South Asia and Southeast Asia (SA and SEA). Methods. Fifteen countries of SA and SEA categorized as HE and L...
Manisha Sahay, Sanjiv Jasuja, Sydney Tang, Suceena Alexander et al.
AIM: There is paucity of data on the epidemiology of end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) from South Asia and South-East Asia. The objective of this study was to assess the aetiology, practice patterns and disease burden and growth of ESKD in the region comparing the economies. METHODS: The national neph...