Regional Variation of Chronic Kidney Disease in Germany: Results From Two Population-Based Surveys

• Main Authors: Nicole Aumann (Author), Sebastian E. Baumeister (Author), Rainer Rettig (Author), Wolfgang Lieb (Author), André Werner (Author), Angela Döring (Author), Annette Peters (Author), Wolfgang Koenig (Author), Anke Hannemann (Author), Henri Wallaschofski (Author), Matthias Nauck (Author), Sylvia Stracke (Author), Henry Völzke (Author), Christa Meisinger (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Karger Publishers, 2015-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background/Aims: Due to the increasing prevalence of risk factors for chronic kidney disease (CKD), kidney dysfunction becomes a major public health problem. We investigated the CKD prevalence and determined to what extent the variation of risk factors explains the different CKD prevalence in German...