Kidney disease, chronic epidemiology

Stengel B,Tarver-Carr ME, Powe NR, Eberhardt MS, Brancati FL Lifestyle factors, obesity and the risk of chronic kidney disease. Epidemiology 14 479-487, 2003. 

There is epidemiologic evidence to suggest an increased prevalence of duodenal ulcers in patients with certain chronic diseases, but the pathophysiologic mechanisms of these associations are uncertain. A strong association exists in patients with systemic mastocytosis, multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1, chronic pulmonary diseases, chronic renal failure, kidney stones, hepatic cirrhosis, and ai-antitrypsin deficiency. An association may exist in patients with cystic fibrosis, chronic pancreatitis, Crohn s disease, coronary artery disease, polycythemia vera, and hyperparathyroidism. 

Levin A. Clinical epidemiology of cardiovascular disease in chronic kidney disease prior to dialysis. Semin Dial 2003 16 101-105. 

Figure 45- i 9 Cardiovascular disease mortality defined by death caused by arrhythmias, cardiomyopathy, cardiac arrest, myocardial infarction, atherosclerotic heart disease, and pulmonary edema in the general population (GP). Data from NCHS multiple cause of mortality data files compared with ESRD treated by dialysis. Data are stratified by age, race, and gender. (From Foley RN, Parfrey PS, Sarnak MJ. Clinical epidemiology of cardiovascular disease in chronic renal disease. Am j Kidney Dis 1998 32 (suppi 3) SI 12-19, w/th permission from the National Kidney Foundation.)... 

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