The epidemiology of chronic kidney disease in Northern Tanzania: a population-based survey.

The epidemiology of chronic kidney disease in Northern Tanzania: a population-based survey.

In sub-Saharan Africa, kidney failure has a high morbidity and mortality. Despite this, population-based estimates of prevalence, potential etiologies, and awareness are not available.Between January and June 2014, we conducted a household survey of randomly-selected adults in Northern Tanzania. To...

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Main Authors: John W Stanifer, Venance Maro, Joseph Egger, Francis Karia, Nathan Thielman, Elizabeth L Turner, Dionis Shimbi, Humphrey Kilaweh, Oliver Matemu, Uptal D Patel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4401757?pdf=render

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