Nature Reviews Nephrology
Kidney disease is a worldwide killer. Treat it that way
Article
24 Apr 2025
The Nature editorial urges World Health Assembly delegates, meeting on 19 May 2025, to back a resolution led by Guatemala that would recognize chronic kidney disease (CKD)—which affects an estimated 8.5 percent of the global population and is a rapidly growing cause of premature death—as a WHO priority non-communicable disease. It argues that inclusion on the WHO’s NCD list would signal to h...