Evidence map›Paper›PMID 38618501›Full record

ReviewKidney international supplements2024

Capacity for the management of kidney failure in the International Society of Nephrology North and East Asia region: report from the 2023 ISN Global Kidney Health Atlas (ISN-GKHA).

Winston Wing-Shing Fung, Hyeong Cheon Park, Yosuke Hirakawa, Silvia Arruebo, Aminu K Bello, Fergus J Caskey, Sandrine Damster, Jo-Ann Donner, Vivekanand Jha, David W Johnson and 10 more

Open access · bronzeAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Kidney international supplements, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
17citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.4field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
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

17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Trial
  3. Review
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Review
  9. Article
  10. Article
  11. Article
  12. Article
  13. Uncovering the mechanistic basis ofPharmaceutical biology · 2025
    Article
  14. Article
  15. Article
  16. Article
  17. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

20 authors at 11 institutions in 9 countries.

Winston Wing-Shing FungDepartment of Medicine and Therapeutics, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Hyeong Cheon ParkDivision of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
Yosuke HirakawaDivision of Nephrology and Endocrinology, University of Tokyo School of Medicine, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Silvia ArrueboThe International Society of Nephrology, Brussels, Belgium.
Aminu K BelloDivision of Nephrology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Fergus J CaskeyPopulation Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
Sandrine DamsterThe International Society of Nephrology, Brussels, Belgium.
Jo-Ann DonnerThe International Society of Nephrology, Brussels, Belgium.
Vivekanand JhaGeorge Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales, New Delhi, India.
David W JohnsonDepartment of Kidney and Transplant Services, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Adeera LevinDivision of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Charu MalikThe International Society of Nephrology, Brussels, Belgium.
Masaomi NangakuDivision of Nephrology and Endocrinology, The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Ikechi G OkpechiDivision of Nephrology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Marcello TonelliDepartment of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Seiji UedaDepartment of Nephrology, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Feng YeDivision of Nephrology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Yusuke SuzukiDepartment of Nephrology, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Angela Yee-Moon WangDepartment of Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Regional Board and ISN-GKHA Team Authors
Juntendo University · JPUniversity of Alberta · CAThe University of Tokyo · JPChinese University of Hong Kong · HKManipal Academy of Higher Education · INQueen Mary Hospital · CNTranslational Research Institute · AUUniversity of Bristol · GBUniversity of British Columbia · CAUniversity of Calgary · CAYonsei University · KR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Globally, there remain significant disparities in the capacity and quality of kidney care, as evidenced by the third edition of the International Society of Nephrology Global Kidney Health Atlas (ISN-GKHA). In the ISN North and East Asia region, the chronic kidney disease (CKD) burden varied widely; Taiwan had the heaviest burden of treated kidney failure (3679 per million population [pmp]) followed by Japan and South Korea. Except in Hong Kong, hemodialysis (HD) was the main dialysis modality for all other countries in the region and was much higher than the global median prevalence. Kidney transplantation services were generally available in the region, but the prevalence was much lower than that of dialysis. Most countries had public funding for kidney replacement therapy (KRT). The median prevalence of nephrologists was 28.7 pmp, higher than that of any other ISN region, with variation across countries. Home HD was available in only 17% of the countries, whereas conservative kidney management was available in 50%. All countries had official registries for dialysis and transplantation; however, only China and Japan had CKD registries. Advocacy groups for CKD, kidney failure, and KRT were uncommon throughout the region. Overall, all countries in the region had capacity for KRT, albeit with some shortages in their kidney care workforce. These data are useful for stakeholders to address gaps in kidney care and to reduce workforce shortages through increased use of multidisciplinary teams and telemedicine, policy changes to promote prevention and treatment of kidney failure, and increased advocacy for kidney disease in the region.

Indexed as

epidemiologyGlobal Kidney Health AtlasInternational Society of Nephrologykidney failurekidney replacement therapyNorth and East Asia

Identifiers

PMID38618501
PMCPMC11010612
OpenAlexW4394567966

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.