Mortality from renal disease in Israel: Some epidemiological aspects

Abstract

A preliminary review of all renal deaths among Jewish residents of Israel during a six year period, yielded a mean annual death rate of 12.2 per 100,000. Chronic glomerulonephritis was the relatively most frequently recorded renal cause of death. Death rates were relatively higher among females aged 40–59 and among males aged 70 and over. These differences seem to be due to excess of deaths from pyelonephritis in middle-aged women and elderly men. North African born males and females and Asian born females had highest death rates from all renal causes combined, while European born residents of both sexes had lowest rates. A trend of a relatively higher death rate in middle-aged females and in elderly males, was observed primarily in the non-European segment. Mortality data do not seem to provide adequate basis for an estimate of dialysis and/or transplantation needs.