1st World Kidney Day is March 9, 2006
Chronic kidney disease and other major chronic non-communicable diseases will claim the lives of 36 million people by the year 2015. The only feasible response to this pending global crisis is
early detection and prevention — the inaugural theme of World Kidney Day, 2006.
The International Society of Nephrology (ISN) and the International Federation of Kidney Foundations (IFKF) have jointly launched a World Kidney Day to:
- Increase awareness of chronic kidney disease and its associated cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.
- Draw attention to the urgent global need for early detection and prevention of chronic kidney disease.
Each year World kidney Day will be held on the second Thursday of March, beginning with Thursday March 9, 2006.
Why a World Kidney Day, why Early Detection and Prevention?
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. Early Detection and Prevention - World Kidney Day 2006 CKD if detected early can be treated, thereby reducing other complications.
The role of the kidney
- 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.
- 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.
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 the more devastating problems such as stroke, peripheral vascular disease, coronary heart disease and kidney failure.
This new information now demands that the 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.
World Kidney Day - March 9, 2006 and beyond
Promoting early detection and prevention represents the first step towards achieving the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended global goal of reducing chronic disease related death rates by 2% per year over the next decade.
Chronic kidney diseases and vascular diseases will kill
36 million people by the year 2015.
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