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Raising Awareness
One important barrier to overcome to ensure greater awareness is to increase focused education of physicians as well as
patients. Projects such as the Kidney Early Evaluation Program
(KEEP; Rao et al. 2008) programme and the ISN COMGAN
(Commission for the Global Advancement of Nephrology)
Research and Prevention Programme are exemplary and need
to be further elaborated around the world.
This year, WKD will focus on:
Raising public awareness of the importance and magnitude
of the hypertension problem in CKD.
Increasing awareness in the medical community concerning
- the prevalence of CKD
- the role of blood pressure
- the management of target blood pressure values
Ensuring that CKD patients and patient organizations are
aware of the crucial importance of self-measurement and
treatment of elevated blood pressure to target values.
Partners
World Kidney Day is collaborating with the International
Society of Hypertension through the World Hypertension
League, World Hypertension Day (17 May 2009) and World
Salt Awareness Week (17 February 2009) initiated by the
World Action on Salt and Hypertension (WASH). Uniting
behind the slogan keep the pressure down, WKD and its partners will put particular emphasis on lifestyle modification as
the cornerstone of therapy, supplemented by antihypertensive
therapy, to break the unholy alliance between blood pressure
and CKD. This emphasis of lifestyle change, for example,
reduced sodium intake and weight loss, will focus particularly
on patients with early CKD.
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References
Alebiosu C.O. & Ayodele O.E. (2005). The global burden of chronic kidney disease and the way forward. Ethnicity and Disease 15(3),
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Atkins R.C. (2005). The epidemiology of chronic kidney disease. Kidney
International Supplement 2005, S14-S18.
Coresh J., Selvin E., Stevens L.A. et al. (2007). Prevalence of chronic
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