Incidence of chronic kidney disease increasing in India along with diabetes: Experts

With the increasing number of cases of diabetes both in India and Asia, the prevalence and incidence of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) are also on the rise, according to experts.

"Number of diabetes cases has been rising and almost 30 to 40% of all diabetics have been noticed to have CKD," said Dr Vidya Acharya, a renowned Nephrologist.

"Diabetes is now a major cause of End Stage Kidney Disease (ESKD) with failure throughout the world in both developed and developing nations," Acharya, chief Nephrologist and Advisor, Gopikrishna Piramal Memorial Hospital said on the eve of World Kidney Day.

"A strategy to detect kidney disease by screening all high risk populations is an important step in prevention. The National Kidney Foundation of India together with Narmada Kidney Foundation and Mumbai Kidney foundation, are all working towards achieving this goal of early detection and  prevention of further progression," the nephrologists of all the foundations said.

India's national CKD registry organised under the auspices of Indian Society of Nephrology and housed in Kidney Institute at Nadiad has given data from 45,885 subjects admitted to 166 kidney centers in India upto January 2010. 

"It is noted that CKD, secondary to diabetes, heads the list at 31.2 per cent," Acharya, who is also a co-ordinator for International Kidney Foundation, said.