| Autor: |
Matthew Jose, Rajesh Raj, Kim Jose, Alex Kitsos, Tim Saunder, Charlotte McKercher, Jan Radford |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2021 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
International Journal of Population Data Science, Vol 6, Iss 1 (2021) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2399-4908 |
| DOI: |
10.23889/ijpds.v6i1.1665 |
| Popis: |
Objective To report (using linked laboratory data) the incidence, prevalence and geographic variation of chronic kidney disease (CKD) across the whole island population of Tasmania, Australia. Methods A retrospective cohort study (the Tasmanian Chronic Kidney Disease study (CKD.TASlink)) using linked data from five health and two pathology datasets from the island state of Tasmania, Australia between 1/1/2004 and 31/12/2017. We used data on 460,737 Tasmanian adults (aged 18 years and older, representing 86.8% of the state's population) who had a serum creatinine measured during the study period. We defined CKD as per Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative, requiring two measures of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) 65% of Tasmanians with eGFR |
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