Chronic kidney disease as a predictor of clinical risk in the elderly
Chronic kidney disease as a predictor of clinical risk in the elderly作者机构:University of Genoa and IRCCS AOU San Martino-IST Genoa Italy
出 版 物:《Journal of Geriatric Cardiology》 (老年心脏病学杂志(英文版))
年 卷 期:2016年第13卷第3期
页 面:199-201页
核心收录:
学科分类:0710[理学-生物学] 071010[理学-生物化学与分子生物学] 081704[工学-应用化学] 07[理学] 08[工学] 0817[工学-化学工程与技术] 0906[农学-兽医学] 09[农学]
主 题:Albuminuria Chronic kidney disease Glomerular filtration rate Risk assessment The elderly
摘 要:Facing the needs of an increasingly ageing population is rapidly becoming a major public health issue in western countries, Chronic kidney disease (CKD), whose current prevalence is estimated around 10%-15% in the general population, with considerably higher figures in at-risk groups, is widely known to increase with age. In the elderly, renal impairment is often concomitant or secondary to several other systemic disorders such as hypertension, atherosclerosis,