Kidney Health for Everyone Everywhere - From Prevention to Detection and Equitable Access to Care

• Main Authors: Philip Kam-Tao Li (Author), Guillermo Garcia-Garcia (Author), Siu-Fai Lui (Author), Sharon Andreoli (Author), Winston Wing-Shing Fung (Author), Anne Hradsky (Author), Latha Kumaraswami (Author), Vassilios Liakopoulos (Author), Ziyoda Rakhimova (Author), Gamal Saadi (Author), Luisa Strani (Author), Ifeoma Ulasi (Author), Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Karger Publishers, 2020-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The global burden of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is rapidly increasing with a projection of becoming the 5th most common cause of years of life lost globally by 2040. Aggravatingly, CKD is a major cause of catastrophic health expenditure. The costs of dialysis and transplantation consume up to 3% o...