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Global Perspective of Kidney Disease

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Nutrition in Kidney Disease

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The demographic shift towards an older population [1] and urbanization with subsequent change in diet and physical activity patterns [2] are resulting in rise of chronic noncommunicable diseases across the world. A majority of patients suffering from diabetes and hypertension—primary risk factors for development of chronic kidney disease (CKD)—now reside in economically developing nations [3, 4].

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  1. Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, 777 Welch Road, Suite DE, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, USA

    Shuchi Anand M.D.

  2. Centre for Control of Chronic Diseases, icddrb, Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Masuma Akter Khanam M.B.B.S., M.P.H.

  3. Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia

    Masuma Akter Khanam M.B.B.S., M.P.H.

  4. Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, USA

    Fredric O. Finkelstein M.D.

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  2. Dept. Nutrition, Long Island University C.W. Post Campus, Brookville, New York, USA

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Anand, S., Khanam, M.A., Finkelstein, F.O. (2014). Global Perspective of Kidney Disease. In: Byham-Gray, L., Burrowes, J., Chertow, G. (eds) Nutrition in Kidney Disease. Nutrition and Health. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-685-6_2

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