Recent data from the Global Burden of Disease project provide alarming statistics about the rapidly growing burden of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in the world. The data from the Global Burden of Disease project reveal a dramatic increase (90%) of global years of life lost to CKD from 1990 to 2013; it is now the 13th leading cause of death worldwide. CKD, which results in almost 1 million deaths annually, is only one of 3 diseases in which standardized death rates have increased since 1990 (the other 2 being HIV/AIDS and diabetes).
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