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Guillermo Garcia-Garcia
Researcher at University of Guadalajara
Publications - 139
Citations - 6984
Guillermo Garcia-Garcia is an academic researcher from University of Guadalajara. The author has contributed to research in topics: Kidney disease & Dialysis. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 131 publications receiving 5427 citations. Previous affiliations of Guillermo Garcia-Garcia include The George Institute for Global Health & University of Cincinnati.
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Chronic kidney disease in disadvantaged populations
TL;DR: The message of WKD 2015 is that a concerted attack against the diseases that lead to ESRD, by increasing community outreach, better education, improved economic opportunity, and access to preventive medicine for those at highest risk, could end the unacceptable relationship between CKD and disadvantage in communities.
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Carga, acceso y disparidades en enfermedad renal
Deidra C. Crews,Deidra C. Crews,Aminu K. Bello,Gamal Saadi,Philip Kam-Tao Li,Guillermo Garcia-Garcia,Sharon Andreoli,Deidra C. Crews,Deidra C. Crews,Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh,Charles Kernahan,Latha Kumaraswami,Luisa Strani +12 more
TL;DR: Opportunities to improve the understanding of disparities in kidney disease, the best ways for them to be addressed, and how to streamline efforts toward achieving kidney health equity across the globe are outlined.
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Chronic kidney disease in disadvantaged populations.
TL;DR: The fact that even in developed countries racial and ethnic minorities bear a disproportionate burden of CKD and have worse outcomes suggests that there is much to learn beyond the traditional risk factors contributing to CKDassociated complications.
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CKD in disadvantaged populations.
Guillermo Garcia-Garcia,Guillermo Garcia-Garcia,Vivekanand Jha,Vivekanand Jha,Vivekanand Jha +4 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a two-pronged approach: expansion of the reach of dialysis through development of low-cost alternatives that can be practiced in remote locations, and implementation and evaluation of cost-effective prevention strategies.
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Chronic kidney disease in homeless persons in Mexico.
Guillermo Garcia-Garcia,Alfonso J. Gutiérrez-Padilla,Karina Renoirte-Lopez,Martha Mendoza-Garcia,Ma C. Oseguera-Vizcaino,Héctor R. Pérez-Gómez,J. Mario Marquez-Amezcua,Marcello Tonelli +7 more
TL;DR: Lack of awareness of having diabetes and hypertension is highly common, as is substance abuse, among the homeless individuals in Jalisco, Mexico, and programs aiming to prevent CKD and its risk factors in Mexico should specifically target this high-risk population.