A recent study published in ‘The Lancet Global health’ has brought a very important public health issue of renal failure deaths in India. The study conducted nationally representative mortality survey for 2001-03 and 2010-2013, using the international Classification of Diseases. The survey found out that diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disease were all significantly associated with increased renal failure deaths, with diabetes the strongest predictor. This article provides some excerpts of the study.
In most of the developed countries, the prevalence of chronic kidney disease is predominantly due to diabetic, and hypertensive nephropathy patients. Whereas, the prevalence and causative factors of renal failure in low income and middle-income countries like India are not properly documented. As countries like India are undergoing rapid economic and epidemiological…
