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The updated global burden of chronic kidney disease: one death every 20 seconds
Journal article published at Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, gfag040, https://doi.org/10.1093/ndt/gfag040 Keywords: chronic kidney disease, disease burden, epidemiology, forecast, kidney replacement therapy, mortality Topic: kidney failure, chronic epidemiology renal replacement therapy mortality Issue Section: Special Report
But how green is it actually? Calculating the environmental footprint of Kidney care environmental optimisations within haemodialysis
A new open-access study from the KitNewCare consortium asks a simple question with complex implications for hospitals across Europe: how green is kidney care, really? Published in the Clinical Kidney Journal by Oxford University Press, “But how green is it actually? Calculating the environmental footprint of kidney care environmental optimisations within haemodialysis” quantifies the carbon and water impacts of common dialysis practices and a set of practical changes designed to reduce them.
