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Kidney Health for All: Caring for People, Protecting the Planet.

Key takeaways

An opinion piece arguing that today's kidney care model is failing: it waits until the disease is far along, then leans on dialysis in clinics, at high cost to patients and the environment. The authors point to the World Health Assembly naming kidney disease a serious health threat as an opening to change the system. They call for care that starts earlier and uses fewer resources. This is an argument for a different approach, not a study, so there are no results to weigh.

Who did this work

Vanholder R · Abdellatif D · Cesar Soares Dos Santos A Jr · Correa-Rotter R · Gopalakrishnan N · Wang B · Roumeliotis S · Balducci A · Haris Á · Yadla M · Hsiao LL

Source

Article · PubMed, CKD progression and prevention · 2026 Jul 31
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42679369/