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Title: Chronic kidney disease in low- and middle-income countries
Authors: Stanifer, J.W
Muiru, A
Jafar, T.H 
Patel, U.D
Keywords: environmental chemical
acute kidney failure
chronic kidney disease
communicable disease
end stage renal disease
health care access
health care disparity
human
low and middle income country
non communicable disease
peritoneal dialysis
population research
prevalence
priority journal
public health service
renal replacement therapy
Review
risk factor
socioeconomics
urbanization
developing country
economics
Renal Insufficiency, Chronic
Developing Countries
Humans
Prevalence
Renal Insufficiency, Chronic
Risk Factors
Issue Date: 2016
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Citation: Stanifer, J.W, Muiru, A, Jafar, T.H, Patel, U.D (2016). Chronic kidney disease in low- and middle-income countries. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 31 (6) : 868-874. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1093/ndt/gfv466
Rights: Attribution 4.0 International
Abstract: Most of the global burden of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is occurring in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). As a result of rapid urbanization in LMICs, a growing number of populations are exposed to numerous environmental toxins, high infectious disease burdens and increasing rates of noncommunicable diseases. For CKD, this portends a high prevalence related to numerous etiologies, and it presents unique challenges. A better understanding of the epidemiology of CKD in LMICs is urgently needed, but this must be coupled with strong public advocacy and broad, collaborative public health efforts that address environmental, communicable, and non-communicable risk factors. © 2016 The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of ERA-EDTA. All rights reserved.
Source Title: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
URI: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/179302
ISSN: 0931-0509
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfv466
Rights: Attribution 4.0 International
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