Journal article
Global, regional, and national burden of chronic kidney disease, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Health system planning requires careful assessment of chronic kidney disease (CKD) epidemiology, but data for morbidity and mortality of this disease are scarce or non-existent in many countries. We estimated the global, regional, and national burden of CKD, as well as the burden of cardiovascular disease and gout attributable to impaired kidney function, for the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2017. We …
Authors
Collaboration GCKD; Bikbov B; Purcell CA; Levey AS; Smith M; Abdoli A; Abebe M; Adebayo OM; Afarideh M; Agarwal SK
Journal
The Lancet, Vol. 395, No. 10225, pp. 709–733
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
February 2020
DOI
10.1016/s0140-6736(20)30045-3
ISSN
0140-6736