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Renal Disease
Research on renal disease detailed by scientists at Federal University
June 16th, 2009
According to recent research from Brazil, "The world is facing an epidemic of chronic kidney disease (CKD). This report. discusses the present state of chronic kidney disease care in Brazil. We report frequency of dialysis treatment and prevalence of kidney transplantation throughout Brazil." "We estimated the number of CKD patients in the country through a mathematical extrapolation based on data generated by the NHANES. On January 2007, 73,605 patients were on dialysis, which corresponds to 390 patients per million of population (pmp); the majority of these patients (similar to 90%) were funded by the Brazilian Public Health System. if we aggregate patients with a...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-06-16)
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