MARCH 8Also comes WORLD WOMEN'S DAY on this day March 8th
Chronic, non-communicable diseases (particularly cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus and chronic kidney disease) have now replaced the communicable diseases as the leading threat to public health and health budgets worldwide.
Deaths claimed by infectious diseases will decline by 3% over the next decade. In marked contrast, chronic diseases that already account for 72% of the total global burden of disease in people over 30 will increase by 17%. Much of this in developing countries.
The cost of treating these chronic diseases, already 80% of many health care budgets, represents a leading threat to public health and healthcare resources worldwide.
The only feasible global response to this pending health and socio-economic crisis is chronic disease prevention.
THE CASE FOR EARLY DETECTION AND PREVENTION
The kidney, too often overlooked as part of global public health efforts, has now emerged as central to prevention efforts.
The kidney, too often overlooked as part of global public health efforts, has now emerged as central to prevention efforts.
The cost of renal replacement therapy (RRT) for total kidney failure weighs heavy on many health care budgets. Over 1.5 million individuals around the world receive dialysis or have had a kidney transplant.
Even more importantly, kidney disease is a “disease multiplier”. It causes death in many people with diabetes and hypertension and predicts the development of a cardiovascular event.
If detected early CKD can be treated, thereby reducing other complications.
If detected early CKD can be treated, thereby reducing other complications.
Abnormalities in kidney function often represent an early window into the state of the general vascular system. This window facilitates early disease detection before patients develop more devastating problems such as a stroke, peripheral vascular disease, coronary heart disease and kidney failure.
This new information now demands that kidney assumes a central role in global health and prevention efforts, because increased awareness of kidney disease has the immediate potential to dramatically reduce the growing burden of deaths and disability from chronic cardiovascular disease worldwide.
Promoting early detection and prevention of CKD will be an important step towards achieving the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended goal of reducing death rates related to chronic disease in the world by 2% per year over the next decade.Chronic kidney diseases and cardiovascular diseases will kill 36 million people by the year 2015.
Also comes WORLD WOMEN'S DAY on this day March 8th
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