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Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2007 22(3):676-677; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfm059
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A call to action on World Kidney Day, 8 March 2007

William G. Couser

President, International Society of Nephrology

Sudhir Shah

President, International Federation of Kidney Foundations

For the joint international Society of Nephrology/International Federation of Kidney Foundations World Kidney Day 2007 Steering Committee.

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World Kidney Day—a joint initiative of the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) and the International Federation of Kidney Foundations (IFKF) aims to spread the crucial message that ‘kidney disease is common, harmful and treatable’.

Common because chronic kidney disease (CKD), defined as a GFR of less than 60 ml/min and/or the presence of microalbuminuria or proteinuria, has now been consistently shown to affect about 10% of the adult population in studies of different races living on different continents world wide [1–5].

Harmful not just because some of these patients progress to end-stage renal disease (ESRD), but more because these renal abnormalities . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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