posted on 2019-12-17, 09:52authored byWesley de Souza, Luiz Carlos de Abreu, Leonardo Gomes da Silva, Italla Maria Pinheiro Bezerra
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) has a set of clinical and laboratory abnormalities where renal function loss is noted. The high prevalence of comorbidity of people living with CKD, its economic impact and its prognosis have made it a public health problem, justifying the need to implement preventive measures. Objective To analyse the mortality and incidence of hospital admissions for CKD. Methods Ecological study with a time series design using secondary microdata of deaths and hospital admissions from patients with CKD from 1996 to 2017 in the State of Espirito Santo, Brazil