Abstract
World Kidney Day 2016 - Averting the Legacy of Kidney Disease - Focus on Childhood
Highlights
AND OVERVIEWThe 11th World Kidney Day will be celebrated on March 10, 2016 and will focus on kidney disease in childhood and the antecedents of adult kidney disease, which can begin even in the perinatal period
World Kidney Day 2016 focuses on kidney disease in childhood and the antecedents of adult kidney disease that can begin in earliest childhood
Our hope is that World Kidney Day will inform the general public, policy makers and caregivers about the needs and possibilities surrounding kidney disease in childhood
Summary
Ingelfinger J.R., Kalantar-Zadeh K., Schaefer F., On behalf of the World Kidney Day Steering Committee. (2016). World Kidney Day 2016 Averting The Legacy of Kidney Disease–Focus On Childhood. World Kidney Day 2016 focuses on kidney disease in childhood and the antecedents of adult kidney disease that can begin in earliest childhood. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) in childhood differs from that in adults, as the largest diagnostic group among children includes congenital anomalies and inherited disorders, with glomerulopathies and kidney disease in the setting of diabetes being relatively uncommon. Because there are disparities in access to care, effort is needed so that those children with kidney disease, wherever they live, may be treated effectively, irrespective of their geographic or economic circumstances. Our hope is that World Kidney Day will inform the general public, policy makers and caregivers about the needs and possibilities surrounding kidney disease in childhood. “For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.”
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