Abstract
Chronic kidney disease of non-traditional causes and proposed risk factors prevalence in hemodialysis patients from southwest Guatemala
Highlights
Program/Project Purpose: Non-communicable diseases like diabetes mellitus are often neglected in Naivasha, a town of over 200,000 people, an hour north of Nairobi
Program/Project Purpose: An epidemic of chronic kidney disease of non-traditional causes (CKDnT) has been documented in southwest El Salvador and Nicaragua, yet no data is available from neighboring Guatemala
Structure/Method/Design: The Guatemalan Social Security healthcare is the largest provider of hemodialysis in southwest Guatemala
Summary
Program/Project Purpose: Non-communicable diseases like diabetes mellitus are often neglected in Naivasha, a town of over 200,000 people, an hour north of Nairobi. Program/Project Purpose: An epidemic of chronic kidney disease of non-traditional causes (CKDnT) has been documented in southwest El Salvador and Nicaragua, yet no data is available from neighboring Guatemala. We sought to determine both the chronic kidney disease (CKD) and CKDnT proposed risk factors prevalence in hemodialysis patients from southwest Guatemala.
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