The world's disease profile is changing, and chronic diseases now account for the majority of global morbidity and mortality. The causes of chronic kidney diseases (CKD) reflect this change. The increase in prevalence of CKD is partly due to a real increase in its frequency (due to the increase in the average age of people surviving), better detection of CKD, but also to the increasing incidence of diabetes and hypertension among people today, not only within the developed world, but also increasingly within the emerging world(1) . |
