Abstract
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a general term covering heterogeneous disorders with an overarching definition of having markers of kidney damage or decreased glomerular filtration rate (GFR). This definition has been widely accepted and unchanging since 2002. The staging of CKD now places GFR categories and albuminuria categories on an equal footing and relates them to risk of an increasing range of outcomes. The prevalence of CKD is recognized to be high globally at over 10%. Data quality is still a limited but improving and trends suggest an increase globally with some plateau in the rise in high income countries with an already high burden of disease.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Chronic Kidney Disease, Dialysis, and Transplantation |
| Subtitle of host publication | A Companion to Brenner and Rector’s The Kidney |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Pages | 2-22.e3 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780323529785 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2018 |
Keywords
- Albuminuria (ACR)
- Chronic kidney disease (CKD)
- Costs
- Global burden of disease
- Glomerular filtration rate (GFR)
- Incidence
- Prevalence
- Proteinuria
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Medicine