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Chronic Kidney Disease in Disadvantaged Populations investigates the increased incidence and prevalence of kidney disease in vulnerable populations world-wide. The volume explor… Read more
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Residents, fellows, clinicians, and biomedical researchers in nephrology, internal medicine, and epidemiology
Section 1: Introduction
1. Introduction
Section 2: Burden of Disease: Prevalence of pre-dialysis kidney disease in disadvantaged populations in developed countries
2. Canada
John W. Stanifer, Anna Mathew, Kajiru Gad Kilonzo, Karen Yeates
3. Prevalence of pre-dialysis kidney disease in disadvantaged populations in developed countries-United States
Robert Nee and Lawrence Y. Agodoa
4. Chronic kidney disease in China
Luxia Zhang and Zuo Li
Section 3: Burden of disease: Prevalence and incidence of pre-dialysis kidney disease in disadvantaged populations in developing countries
5. Integration of Chronic Kidney Disease Prevention into the Uruguayan National Programme for Noncommunicable Diseases
Laura Solá
6. Prevalence of chronic kidney disease and associated risk factors in Cuba
Raúl Herrera Valdés, Miguel Almaguer López , José A. Chipi Cabrera, Jorge F. Pérez-Oliva Díaz,
Section 4: Disparities in ESRD among disadvantaged populations
7. ESRD among indigenous populations in Canada
Susan Samuel, Brenda Hemmelgarn, Manish Sood and Marcello Tonelli
8. Racial differences in kidney disease and end-stage kidney disease in the USA
Robert Nee and Lawrence Y. Agodoa
9. ESRD in Mexico
Guillermo Garcia-Garcia, Hector Garcia-Bejarano, Hugo Breien-Coronado, Gustavo Perez-Cortes, Leonardo Pazarin-Villaseñor, Librado de la Torre-Campos, Luz Alcantar-Vallin
10. End stage renal disease in Latin America
Maria Carlota González-Bedat, Guillermo Rosa-Diez and Ana Maria Cusumano
11. Kidney Disease in Ethnic Minority Populations in the United Kingdom
Gavin Dreyer and Fergus Caskey
12. End-Stage Renal Disease in the Middle East
Faissal A.M. Shaheen
13. End Stage Renal Disease (ESKD) in Egypt and North Africa
Rashad S. Barsoum
14. End Stage Renal Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa
Saraladevi Naicker and Gloria Ashuntantang
15. Kidney Disease in South Asia
Vivek Kumar, Vivekanand Jha
16. ESRD in South-East Asia
Sydney C.W. Tang
17. Kidney Disease in Maori and Pacific people in New Zealand
John F Collins, Viliame Tutone and Curtis Walker
18. Kidney Disease among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia
Stephen McDonald and Wendy Hoy
Section 5: Current view on risk factors
19. Current view on CKD risk factors: Traditional, non-communicable diseases: diabetes, hypertension, and obesity
Keith C. Norris, Williams SF, Nicholas SB, Lawrence Y. Agodoa
20. Risk Factors for Kidney Disease in Disadvantaged Populations – Communicable diseases, environmental factors, pollutants
Arogundade Fatiu Abiola
21. Poverty and Renal Disease
Deidra C. Crews
Section 6: Unique issues in kidney disease among disadvantaged populations
22. Mesoamerican Nephropathy or Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Origin
Ricardo Correa-Rotter
23. Prematurity, low birthweight and CKD
Wendy E. Hoy, Susan A. Mott and Jennifer L. Nicol
24. Hypovitaminosis D and Progression of CKD
Rajnish Mehrotra
25. Renal Care in an Unequal World: anthropological reflections
Ciara Kierans
26. Developing nephrology programs in low resource settings
Valerie A. Luyckx, Aminu K Bello and Saraladevi Naicker
27. Renal transplantation in low resource settings
S Adibul Hasan Rizvi, Mirza Naqi Zafar, Tahir Aziz, S A Anwar Naqvi, Zafar Hussain, Altaf Hashmi, Manzoor Hussain, Rehan Mohsin, Asad Shahzad Hassan, Fazal Akhtar, Ejaz Ahmed
28. Renal Transplantation, the Iranian Model
Mitra Mahdavi-Mazdeh and Alireza Heidary Rouchi
Section 7: CKD screening and prevention strategies in disadvantaged populations
29. Developing a Rational Approach for Chronic Kidney Disease Identification: Population Based vs. Targeted Screening Studies
Keith C. Norris, Nicholas SB, Guillermo Garcia-Garcia, Lawrence Y. Agodoa
30. CKD screening in Mexico
Guillermo Garcia-Garcia, Alfonso Gutierrez-Padilla, Raul Reyna-Raygoza, Carlos Rosales-Galindo, Margarita Ibarra-Hernandez, Karina , Renoirte-Lopez,
31. The role of primary health care professionals
Alfonso M. Cueto-Manzano, Héctor R. Martínez-Ramírez, Laura Cortés-Sanabria and Enrique Rojas-Campos
32. Chronic Kidney Disease in Disadvantaged Populations
Roberto Tapia-Conyer, Héctor Gallardo-Rincón, Miguel Betancourt-Cravioto
33. Integration of Chronic Kidney Disease Prevention into the Uruguayan National Programme for Noncommunicable Diseases
Laura Solá
34. Integration of Chronic Kidney Disease Prevention into Non-communicable Diseases Programs in Cuba
Miguel Almaguer López, Raúl Herrera Valdés, Jorge Pérez-Oliva Díaz, Orlando Landrove Rodríguez
35. Raising awareness. The World Kidney Day Initiative
Guillermo Garcia-Garcia, Philip Kam Tao Li, Nestor J. Santiago-Hernandez, Gustavo Perez-Cortez and Jonathan S. Chavez-Iñiguez
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