With the aging of the US population and the increase in hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and obesity, the prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is increasing in the United States. Its prevalence rate has risen to 13.1% of the US population. Patients with CKD experience poor outcomes and have high health care costs. Chronic kidney disease is also a major cardiovascular disease risk factor. ...

The worldwide high prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and the increasing number of patients reaching endstage renal disease (ESRD) are a matter of major concern. The most widely accepted classification system of CKD is that proposed by the Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (KDOQI) in 2002. When applying this system, it has become apparent that the prevalence of CKD is particula...

Introduction: Chronic kidney disease [CKD], as defined by the National Kidney Foundation/Kidney Disease and Outcome Quality Initiative (KDOQI) Group, refers to bilateral injury and/or impaired function of at least 3 months duration. Persistent proteinuria has been recognized one early markers chronic associated with persistent progressive damage in both children adult. This study was conducted ...

In response to the 2012 KDIGO (Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes) guideline for blood pressure management in patients with chronic kidney disease not on dialysis, the National Kidney Foundation organized a group of US experts in hypertension and transplant nephrology to review the recommendations and comment on their relevancy in the context of current US clinical practice and concerns....

A pproximately 19 million Americans older than 20 years have chronic kidney disease, and an additional 435,000 have end-stage renal disease (Table 11). The incidence of end-stage renal disease, with its annual mortality rate of 24 percent, has doubled every decade since 1980.2 Chronic kidney disease is 100 times more prevalent than end-stage renal disease, and its incidence is increasing at an ...

UNLABELLED Screening Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) allows early interventions, which may alter the natural course of the disease, including cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Screening for Occult Renal Disease (SCORED) is questionnaire with nine questions with different weights, and predicts a 20% chance for CKD if a individual score > 4 points. AIM Translate to Portuguese, perform the ad...

In the past two decades, the international health efforts have been focused on the control of infectious diseases in developing countries with noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) given a lower priority. 1 However, the incidence of NCDs including chronic kidney disease (CKD) is increasing in developing countries where primary care intervention for CKD is often inadequate. 2 The main international fo...

BACKGROUND Population-based data on the burden of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in sub-Saharan Africa is still very limited. We assessed the prevalence and determinants of CKD, and evaluated the concordance of commonly advocated estimators of glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in a mixed ancestry population from South Africa. METHODS Participants were a population-based sample of adults selecte...

T here is ongoing controversy concerning the influence of the pharmaceutical industry on physicians, research publications, medical societies, and disease advocacy groups (1–7). Nowhere is the potential influence of industry more concerning than in development of clinical practice guidelines (8), which are designed to improve and standardize patient care yet also have enormous economic implicat...

Abstract Background and Aims The better understanding of the biological pathways related to chronic kidney disease (CKD) may be useful for identification new therapeutic targets improve management CKD patients. High-throughput technologies with innovative bioinformatics approaches data analysis are very achieve this objective. Method We reinterrogated our previous gene expression microarray obt...