Registry tracks patients with CKD in Mexico with unknown etiology
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WASHINGTON — First-year data were presented here at ASN Kidney Week from a new registry developed to research the etiology of patients in Mexico who do not have typical links to chronic kidney disease.
Patients tend to be young, male and work in the sugar cane industry, study author Jose Manuel Arreola Guerra, MD, of the Centenario Hospital Miguel Hidalgo in Aguascalientes, Mexico, told Healio/Nephrology. “We have seen similar reports of CKDu (unknown etiology) in Nicaragua, San Salvador and Honduras,” he said.
Guerra and his medical group at the University of Mexico transplanted 26 patients who were “all very young, with none of the common causes of kidney disease, like hypertension or diabetes,” Guerra said.
Since June 2018, the Health Council from Aguascalientes, Mexico, has operated the state registry on CKD. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Mexico reports the global burden in that country attributed to CKD is one of the highest worldwide.
Guerra said 2,574 patients have been registered as of May 2019, of whom 93 have died and 321 are transplanted. The most common causes are CKD of unknown origin (n= 981, 45.4%), according to registry data, diabetes mellitus (n=681, 31.5%) and systemic arterial hypertension (n= 326, 15%).
“At this moment, a study of screening of CKD in adolescents in the state is being developed which is expected to contribute to the study of the causes of CKD in our population,” the authors concluded. – by Mark E. Neumann
Reference:
Arreola Guerra JM. abstract TH-PO1034. Presented at: ASN Kidney Week; Nov. 7-10, 2019; Washington, D.C.
Disclosure: Guerra reports no relevant disclosures.