Chronic kidney disease

There were 17,000 deaths with CKD listed as an underlying or associated cause of death in 2017

Half (50%) of all CKD deaths occur at age 85+ and 70% of CKD hospitalisations (excluding dialysis) occur at age 65+

Kidney and urinary diseases accounted for 1.4% of Australia's total burden of disease in 2015

An estimated 1 in 10 Australian adults (10%)—about 1.7 million people in 2011–12—had biomedical signs of CKD