Mohammad-Mahdi Rashidi, Sahar Saeedi Moghaddam, Sina Azadnajafabad, Esmaeil Mohammadi, Amirmohammad Khalaji, Mohammad-Reza Malekpour, Mohammad Keykhaei, Negar Rezaei, Zahra Esfahani, Nazila Rezaei, Ali H Mokdad, Christopher J L Murray, Mohsen Naghavi, Bagher Larijani, Farshad Farzadfar
BACKGROUND: The study aimed to estimate the attributable burden to kidney dysfunction as a metabolic risk factor in the North Africa and Middle East (NAME) region and its 21 countries in 1990-2019. METHODS: The data used in this study were obtained from the Global Burden of Diseases (GBD) 2019 study, which provided estimated measures of deaths, disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), and other epidemiological indicators of burden. To provide a better insight into the differences in the level of social, cultural, and economic factors, the Socio-Demographic Index (SDI) was used...
January 2024: Clinical Kidney Journal