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Evolving importance of kidney disease: from subspecialty to global health burden

Eckardt, Kai-Uwe; Coresh, Josef; Devuyst, Olivier; Johnson, Richard J; Köttgen, Anna; Levey, Andrew S; Levin, Adeera (2013). Evolving importance of kidney disease: from subspecialty to global health burden. Lancet, 382(9887):158-169.

Abstract

In the past decade, kidney disease diagnosed with objective measures of kidney damage and function has been recognised as a major public health burden. The population prevalence of chronic kidney disease exceeds 10%, and is more than 50% in high-risk subpopulations. Independent of age, sex, ethnic group, and comorbidity, strong, graded, and consistent associations exist between clinical prognosis and two hallmarks of chronic kidney disease: reduced glomerular filtration rate and increased urinary albumin excretion. Furthermore, an acute reduction in glomerular filtration rate is a risk factor for adverse clinical outcomes and the development and progression of chronic kidney disease. An increasing amount of evidence suggests that the kidneys are not only target organs of many diseases but also can strikingly aggravate or start systemic pathophysiological processes through their complex functions and effects on body homoeostasis. Risk of kidney disease has a notable genetic component, and identified genes have provided new insights into relevant abnormalities in renal structure and function and essential homoeostatic processes. Collaboration across general and specialised health-care professionals is needed to fully address the challenge of prevention of acute and chronic kidney disease and improve outcomes.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, further contribution
Communities & Collections:04 Faculty of Medicine > Institute of Physiology
07 Faculty of Science > Institute of Physiology

04 Faculty of Medicine > Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology (ZIHP)
Dewey Decimal Classification:570 Life sciences; biology
610 Medicine & health
Scopus Subject Areas:Health Sciences > General Medicine
Language:English
Date:2013
Deposited On:27 Jun 2013 10:51
Last Modified:09 Jul 2025 01:38
Publisher:Elsevier
ISSN:0140-6736
OA Status:Green
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60439-0
PubMed ID:23727165
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