Chronic Kidney Disease statistics
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Prevention of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and chronic kidney disease: targeting risk factors (11 December 2009)
Health care expenditure on chronic kidney disease in Australia 2004-05 (3 September 2009)
An overview of chronic kidney disease in Australia, 2009 (27 May 2009)
Outline of the National Centre for Monitoring Chronic Kidney Disease (27 January 2009)
Comorbidity of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and chronic kidney disease in Australia (9 August 2007)
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How many people have CKD?
Due to the lack of symptoms in the earlier stages of CKD, the true number of people with CKD is difficult to estimate.
- Prevalence - a population survey in 1999-2000 found that 1 in 7 (13.4%) Australians adults over 25 years of age has some degree of CKD.
- In 2007, 17,000 people received dialysis or had a functioning kidney transplant, an increase of 26% since 2000.
How many people are hospitalised for CKD?
- In 2006-07, CKD contributed to over 1.1 million hospitalisations, most of which were for regular dialysis.
How many people die from CKD?
CKD Contributed to 10% of deaths in 2006
- 2,705 deaths with CKD as the underlying cause of death.
- 10,284 deaths with CKD as the associated cause of death.
CKD and Indigenous Australians
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples were-
- Treated for ESKD at 6 times the rate of other Australians in 2007,
- Hospitalised at 7 times the rate of other Australians in 2006-07;
- and had much higher mortality rates than non-Indigenous Australians, 7 times for males and 11 times for females in 2004-06 with CKD as an underlying cause of death.