the world hypertension day celebrates 17 th of may of every year by concentrating on an important global health subject. for world hypertension day (whd) 2014, they have chosen “know your blood pressure “as the theme. chronic kidney disease is a worldwide public health puzzle and hypertension is one the most important cause of damage to the kidneys. in fact by improved screening, diagnostic eff...

World Kidney Day on March 8th, 2012, provides a chance to reflect on the success of kidney transplantation as a therapy for end-stage kidney disease that surpasses dialysis treatments, both for the quality and quantity of life, that it provides and for its cost effectiveness. Anything that is both cheaper and better, but is not actually the dominant therapy, must have other drawbacks that preve...

358 Nefrologia 2011;31(3):358-78 We spontaneously studied a non-selected population that attended the WKD marquee in the city centre. The following measurements were taken: anthropometrics, blood pressure (Omron), glucose (Reflotron) and creatinine (Reflotron) rates, intima-media thickness (IMT) measured by ultrasound of the supra-aortic trunks (LOGIQ, 12MHz probe), taken from the posterior wal...

Corresponding author: Robert Atkins. Monash Medical School. Alfred Hospital Dept. Epidemiology & Preventive Med. Victoria Australia. Phone: 61 39903 0555 Fax: 61 39903 0050. E mail: [email protected], [email protected] For the 2010 International Society of Nephrology/International Federation of Kidney Foundations World Kidney Day Steering Committee* (RA) and the International Diabet...

World Kidney Day is a joint initiative of the International Society of Nephrology and other nephrology organisations, which will be observed annually on the second Thursday of March throughout the world. Initiated in 2006, its purpose is to increase awareness of chronic kidney disease (CKD), its associated cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, and to draw attention to the urgent global need f...

Lynda A. Szczech,* William Harmon, Thomas H. Hostetter, Paul E. Klotman, Neil R. Powe, John R. Sedor, Paul Smedberg,** and Jonathan Himmelfarb *Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of M...