Burden of chronic kidney disease on the African continent: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Accurate contemporary data on the burden of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) on the African continent are lacking. We determined the prevalence of CKD in adult populations living in Africa, and variations by stage, gender, estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR) equation, and residence.

Methods

For this systematic review, we searched multiple electronic databases for original studies on CKD prevalence reported from January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2016. Two reviewers independently undertook quality assessment and data extraction. We stabilized the variance of study-specific estimates with the Freeman-Turkey single arcsine transformation and pooled the data using a random effects meta-analysis models.

Results

A total of 98 studies involving 98,432 individuals

SUBMITTER: Kaze AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5984759 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature