Beginning the trajectory to ESKD in adult life: albuminuria in Australian aboriginal children and adolescents

• Published in: Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, West) Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 119 - 129
• Main Authors: Kim, Siah, Macaskill, Petra, Hodson, Elisabeth M, Daylight, Jennifer, Williams, Rita, Kearns, Rachael, Vukasin, Nicola, Lyle, David M., Craig, Jonathan C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2017; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Aboriginal Australians; Adolescent; Albuminuria; Albuminuria - epidemiology; Albuminuria - urine; Australia - epidemiology; Body mass index; Care and treatment; Child; Chronic kidney failure; Cohort Studies; Demographic aspects; Diagnosis; Female; Health aspects; Humans; Kidney Failure, Chronic - epidemiology; Kidney Failure, Chronic - urine; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Nephrology; New South Wales - epidemiology; Obesity; Obesity - epidemiology; Oceanic Ancestry Group - statistics & numerical data; Original Article; Overweight - epidemiology; Pediatrics; Prevalence; Prospective Studies; Risk Factors; Socioeconomic factors; Teenagers; Urology; Australia; New South Wales Australia; Paediatric; Aboriginal Australians; Albuminuria; Kidney; Adolescent

Background Globally, disadvantaged populations suffer a high burden of chronic kidney disease (CKD). The trajectory to CKD during childhood and adolescence remains unclear due to a paucity of longitudinal studies. Methods This was a prospective, population-based cohort study in which since 2002 we h...