Abstract
Chronic kidney disease epidemic in Central America: urgent public health action is needed amid causal uncertainty.
Highlights
The 52nd Directing Council of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), in response to a call for action of the Minister of Health of El Salvador, recognized chronic kidney disease from nontraditional causes (CKDnT) affecting agricultural communities in Central America as a serious public health problem that requires urgent, effective, and concerted multisectoral action [1]
A proxy for CKDnT mortality, the age standardized mortality rate due to chronic kidney disease—coded as N18 (CKD-N18) by the 2010 International Classification of Diseases—is notably higher for men and women in Nicaragua and El Salvador compared to other countries in the region and has been since at least 2000
Mortality due to CKD in El Salvador and Nicaragua exhibited a pattern of excess mortality in young adults (Figure 2), which is consistent with many other clinical and epidemiological reports [2,3,4]
Summary
The 52nd Directing Council of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), in response to a call for action of the Minister of Health of El Salvador, recognized chronic kidney disease from nontraditional causes (CKDnT) affecting agricultural communities in Central America as a serious public health problem that requires urgent, effective, and concerted multisectoral action [1]. Most Central American countries do not have surveillance systems capable of detecting chronic kidney disease (CKD). Many reports [2,3,4] and data from PAHO show the epidemiological magnitude of the disease.
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