Main aspects of prevention and approaches to treating chronic kidney disease

The pandemic of chronic non-communicable diseases, which claimed millions of lives each year, was a global challenge to modern health care worldwide, with not only medical but also great socio-economic significance, resulting in severe complications related to disability and the need for high treatment costs. Among them, kidney diseases occupy an important place due to the high prevalence, mortality, and sharp decline in the quality of life of patients. According to leading population registers (NHANTS III, Okinawa Stady), the prevalence of chronic kidney disease is at least 10%, reaching more than 20% in individual categories of individuals. Screening and identification of risk factors are inseparable from primary prevention of chronic kidney disease. Primary prevention is based on dispensary observation of patients of risk groups with subsequent development of individual medical recommendations for control of modified risk factors and control over their implementation...