Situation of chronic kidney disease in Latin America, with emphasis on diabetic kidney disease: difficulties and challenges

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a serious public health problem worldwide, with a high prevalence in the adult population and often lately diagnosed. A meeting of experts in nephrology, with participants from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic, was held with the aim of generating pro posals and a call to action on how to deal with CKD and cardio-renal-metabolic syndrome. Based on a review of the best available evidence and from the perspective of experience in daily practice about the difficulties and opportunities for opti mizing early diagnosis and treatment of CKD, with emphasis on diabetic kidney disease, a description of the current scenario, the challenges and proposals for improving this situation in the region are presented

• Autores: Rico-Fontalvo, Jorge; Elbert, Alicia; lorca, eduardo; daza arnedo, rodrigo andres; Castellaro, Carlos; Villavicencio, Vanessa; Rosa Diez, Guillermo Javier; Bonanno-Hidalgo, Carlos; Sánchez-Polo, Vicente; Correa-Rotter, Ricardo
• Fecha de publicación: 2025
• Institución: Universidad Simón Bolívar
• Repositorio: Repositorio Digital USB
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:bonga.unisimon.edu.co:20.500.12442/16404
• Acceso en línea: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12442/16404; https://www.nefrologialatinoamericana.com/frame_eng.php?id=161
• Palabra clave: Enfermedad renal crónica; Diabetes; Enfermedad renal diabética; Obesidad; Epidemiología; Implementación; Políticas de salud renal; Chronic kidney disease; Diabetes; Diabetic kidney disease; Obesity; Epidemiology; Implementation; Kidney health policy
• Rights: openAccess
• License: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States