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Profile, follow-up adherence and progression of people with advanced chronic kidney disease in specialized care centers: a retrospective study, Santa Catarina state, Brazil, 2021-2024.

Article C Peer reviewed Observational

Key takeaways

Researchers looked back at medical records from five kidney clinics in Santa Catarina, Brazil, covering people treated between November 2021 and October 2024. Everyone had stage 4 or stage 5 kidney disease, which is advanced. The team described who these patients were, how many kept coming to appointments, and how their kidney filtering rate (eGFR) changed after one year of specialist care. This kind of look-back study can show a link between staying in care and kidney results, but it cannot prove the care caused the difference.

Who did this work

Nerbass FB · Hanauer MA · da Silva IF · da Costa TF · da Silva RM · Fabre L · Vieira MA · Calice-Silva V

Source

Article · PubMed, CKD progression · 2026 Apr 10
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42718411/