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What We Do and Do Not Know About Women and Kidney Diseases; Questions Unanswered and Answers Unquestioned: Reflection on World Kidney Day and International Woman’s Day

BACKGROUND: Chronic kidney disease affects approximately 10% of the world’s adult population: It is within the top 20 causes of death worldwide, and its impact on patients and their families can be devastating. World Kidney Day and International Women’s Day in 2018 coincide, thus giving an occasion...

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Autores principales: Piccoli, Giorgina B., Alrukhaimi, Mona, Liu, Zhi-Hong, Zakharova, Elena, Levin, Adeera
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5846917/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29552348
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2054358118761656
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author Piccoli, Giorgina B.
Alrukhaimi, Mona
Liu, Zhi-Hong
Zakharova, Elena
Levin, Adeera
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description BACKGROUND: Chronic kidney disease affects approximately 10% of the world’s adult population: It is within the top 20 causes of death worldwide, and its impact on patients and their families can be devastating. World Kidney Day and International Women’s Day in 2018 coincide, thus giving an occasion to reflect on open questions on the importance of kidney health in women for the present and the future generations. OBJECTIVES: In this review, we summarize some aspects that are unique to women’s kidney health, offering an opportunity to reflect on the importance of women’s health and specifically their kidney health, on the community, and the next generations, as well as to strive to be more curious about the unique aspects of kidney disease in women so that we may apply those learnings more broadly. FINDINGS: Girls and women, who make up approximately 50% of the world’s population, are important contributors to society and their families. Gender differences continue to exist around the world in access to education, medical care, and participation in clinical studies. Pregnancy is not only a unique state for women, offering an opportunity for diagnosis of kidney disease, but also a state where acute and chronic kidney diseases may manifest, and which may impact future generations with respect to kidney health. There are various autoimmune and other conditions that are more likely to impact women with profound consequences for childbearing, and on the fetus. Women have different complications on dialysis than men, and are more likely to be donors than recipients of kidney transplants. CONCLUSION: Improving knowledge on women, kidney health, and kidney disease, may be a way to improve outcomes of kidney diseases worldwide.
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spelling pubmed-58469172018-03-16 What We Do and Do Not Know About Women and Kidney Diseases; Questions Unanswered and Answers Unquestioned: Reflection on World Kidney Day and International Woman’s Day Piccoli, Giorgina B. Alrukhaimi, Mona Liu, Zhi-Hong Zakharova, Elena Levin, Adeera Can J Kidney Health Dis Editorial BACKGROUND: Chronic kidney disease affects approximately 10% of the world’s adult population: It is within the top 20 causes of death worldwide, and its impact on patients and their families can be devastating. World Kidney Day and International Women’s Day in 2018 coincide, thus giving an occasion to reflect on open questions on the importance of kidney health in women for the present and the future generations. OBJECTIVES: In this review, we summarize some aspects that are unique to women’s kidney health, offering an opportunity to reflect on the importance of women’s health and specifically their kidney health, on the community, and the next generations, as well as to strive to be more curious about the unique aspects of kidney disease in women so that we may apply those learnings more broadly. FINDINGS: Girls and women, who make up approximately 50% of the world’s population, are important contributors to society and their families. Gender differences continue to exist around the world in access to education, medical care, and participation in clinical studies. Pregnancy is not only a unique state for women, offering an opportunity for diagnosis of kidney disease, but also a state where acute and chronic kidney diseases may manifest, and which may impact future generations with respect to kidney health. There are various autoimmune and other conditions that are more likely to impact women with profound consequences for childbearing, and on the fetus. Women have different complications on dialysis than men, and are more likely to be donors than recipients of kidney transplants. CONCLUSION: Improving knowledge on women, kidney health, and kidney disease, may be a way to improve outcomes of kidney diseases worldwide. SAGE Publications 2018-03-08 /pmc/articles/PMC5846917/ /pubmed/29552348 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2054358118761656 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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title_full What We Do and Do Not Know About Women and Kidney Diseases; Questions Unanswered and Answers Unquestioned: Reflection on World Kidney Day and International Woman’s Day
title_fullStr What We Do and Do Not Know About Women and Kidney Diseases; Questions Unanswered and Answers Unquestioned: Reflection on World Kidney Day and International Woman’s Day
title_full_unstemmed What We Do and Do Not Know About Women and Kidney Diseases; Questions Unanswered and Answers Unquestioned: Reflection on World Kidney Day and International Woman’s Day
title_short What We Do and Do Not Know About Women and Kidney Diseases; Questions Unanswered and Answers Unquestioned: Reflection on World Kidney Day and International Woman’s Day
title_sort what we do and do not know about women and kidney diseases; questions unanswered and answers unquestioned: reflection on world kidney day and international woman’s day
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5846917/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29552348
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2054358118761656
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