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ReviewNature reviews. Nephrology2021

Sustainable Development Goals relevant to kidney health: an update on progress.

Valerie A Luyckx, Ziyad Al-Aly, Aminu K Bello, Ezequiel Bellorin-Font, Raul G Carlini, June Fabian, Guillermo Garcia-Garcia, Arpana Iyengar, Mohammed Sekkarie, Wim van Biesen and 3 more

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Review in Nature reviews. Nephrology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 94 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

94 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  4. Little kidneys amid large global inequities.Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) · 2026
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  19. Salvianolic Acids and Their Pharmacological Promise in Kidney Diseases: A Narrative Review.International journal of nephrology and renovascular disease · 2026
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34 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Valerie A LuyckxRenal Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Valerie.luyckx@uzh.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7066-8135
Ziyad Al-AlyDepartment of Medicine, Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, MO, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2600-0434
Aminu K BelloDivision of Nephrology & Immunology, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Ezequiel Bellorin-FontDivision of Nephrology, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO, USA.
Raul G CarliniSección de Investigación, Servicio de Nefrología y Trasplante Renal, Hospital Universitario de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela.
June FabianWits Donald Gordon Medical Centre, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Witwatersrand, South Africa.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7130-9142
Guillermo Garcia-GarciaNephrology Service, Hospital Civil de Guadalajara Fray Antonio Alcalde, University of Guadalajara Health Sciences Center, Hospital, 278, Guadalajara, Mexico.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0558-0035
Arpana IyengarDepartment of Paediatric Nephrology, St. John's National Academy of Health Sciences, Bangalore, India.
Mohammed SekkarieNephrology and Hypertension Associates, Bluefield, WV, USA.
Wim van BiesenRenal Division, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4782-5224
Ifeoma UlasiRenal Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria.
Karen YeatesDivision of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
John StaniferMunson Nephrology, Munson Healthcare, Traverse City, MI, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Globally, more than 5 million people die annually from lack of access to critical treatments for kidney disease - by 2040, chronic kidney disease is projected to be the fifth leading cause of death worldwide. Kidney diseases are particularly challenging to tackle because they are pathologically diverse and are often asymptomatic. As such, kidney disease is often diagnosed late, and the global burden of kidney disease continues to be underappreciated. When kidney disease is not detected and treated early, patient care requires specialized resources that drive up cost, place many people at risk of catastrophic health expenditure and pose high opportunity costs for health systems. Prevention of kidney disease is highly cost-effective but requires a multisectoral holistic approach. Each Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) has the potential to impact kidney disease risk or improve early diagnosis and treatment, and thus reduce the need for high-cost care. All countries have agreed to strive to achieve the SDGs, but progress is disjointed and uneven among and within countries. The six SDG Transformations framework can be used to examine SDGs with relevance to kidney health that require attention and reveal inter-linkages among the SDGs that should accelerate progress.

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Health Services AccessibilityNephrologyRenal Replacement TherapySustainable DevelopmentCatastrophic IllnessEarly DiagnosisEarly Medical InterventionEducationGender EquityHealth ExpendituresHumansKidney DiseasesPovertyRisk Reduction BehaviorSocial Determinants of HealthUniversal Health Care

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PMID33188362
PMCPMC7662029

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