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Unawareness for chronic kidney disease is high in all stages, age groups and comorbidities – and higher in women than in men
2021-05-23
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<h4>Background</h4> Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular events, hospitalizations or mortality. In populations aged ≥40 years, CKD is as prevalent as diabetes or coronary heart disease. Awareness for CKD though is generally low in public, patients and physicians, which hinders early diagnosis and treatment to decelerate disease progress. <h4>Method</h4> We analyzed b...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 3c61cf36-1c75-527e-8ec7-b91874609aac
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.05.21.21257582