Wcn24-1778 Chronic Kidney Disease: A Model for Analyzing Gender Inequity in Access to the Health Care System

In CKD, sex (biological) and/or gender (sociocultural) differences in both the pathogenesis of the disease and the response to treatment are increasingly pronounced. In Uruguay, data from the National Renal Healthcare Program (NRHP-UY) have shown that in 14,659 patients, 56.9% were male (M). According to data from the Uruguayan Dialysis Registry (UDR), chronic dialysis (CD) incidence was 215 pmp with a higher rate in male (M) vs female (F) (273 vs 161 pmp) in 2022. It has been proposed that, in developing countries, the lower prevalence of F in CD would be linked to a lower inclusion of women in the formal work sector with the consequent difficulty of access to the health system.