Scientific-Tools.Org will conduct an advocacy campaign on social media to increase chronic kidney disease (CKD) awareness.
According to the Global Burden of Disease Study, CKD affects almost 700 million people worldwide and led to 3.2 million deaths only in 2019. CKD can be easily diagnosed by two simple and inexpensive tests: analysis of urine and serum creatinine measurement with subsequent calculation of estimated glomerular filtration rate. However, these two simple tests are not performed in a substantial proportion of high-risk patients (those having diabetes, hypertension, etc) and awareness about it is 10%-20% among patients who already have early CKD. The lack of timely diagnostics leads to the absence of treatment and CKD progression – and that is a huge pitfall because at the early stages, CKD could be treated by affordable medicines like ACEI or ARB (majority of them are available as generics).
To further increase awareness about CKD and call for action, several infographics about CKD burden at the global, regional and country levels were created and are available at https://scientific-tools.org/portfolio-item/infographics-on-chronic-kidney-disease-ckd-epidemiology
Feel free to use, share and repost these infographics to increase awareness about CKD and call for action:
1. CKD prevalence at global level https://bit.ly/CKDGlobPrev
2. CKD mortality at global level https://bit.ly/CKDGlobMort
3. CKD prevalence in 21 world’s regions https://bit.ly/CKDRegPrev
4. CKD mortality in 21 world’s regions https://bit.ly/CKDRegMort
5. CKD YLDs, YLLs and DALYs at global level https://bit.ly/CKDGlobDALY
More details on CKD epidemiology are available in the Lancet paper https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(20)30045-3/fulltext