Chronic kidney disease: Epidemiologic study

Abstract

Chronic kidney disease ( CKD)  is set in 5 stages of increasing severity with a decrease in glomerular filteration rate leading to end stage renal disease( ESRD) requring a treatment of substitution,dialysis or transplantation. CKD is frequent , it increases with age ,and effects one person out of ten in the general population,and only 4 per 1,00,000 will reach end stage renal disesase( ESRD). As soon as it occurs , CKD is associated with increased cardio vacsular comorbid condition.Mortality in dialysis is far higher than in the general population.In France , more than 4billion euros per year, that is 2%of overall health expenditures or dedicated to the treatment of 0.11%of the population.It is therefore at the early stahlges of CKD that the efforts of screening and prevention ofESRD should be targeted.