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A WORLD PERSPECTIVE ON RENAL CARE: THE CHALLENGES OF PREVENTION AND TREATMENT
Author(s) -
Dirks J.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
edtna‐erca journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.381
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 1755-6686
pISSN - 1019-083X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-6686.2005.tb00397.x
Subject(s) - medicine , library science , outreach , family medicine , political science , management , law , computer science , economics
It is a special privilege to address the renal care professionals who so skilfully carry out renal replacement treatment in all the countries of the European Union. Approximately one million people a year die from renal diseases. There are currently 1,065,000 people on haemodialysis worldwide. Ninety percent of them live in North America, Japan and Europe, whose population is less than 20% of the world's total. What this tells us is that dialysis isn't available in developing countries, as one could expect that the number of both pre-dialysis patients and those needing dialysis would be about the same in the developed and developing world.