Ming hui Zhao

TL;DR: The large number of people receiving RRT and the substantial number without access to it show the need to both develop low-cost treatments and implement effective population-based prevention strategies.

TL;DR: Girls in South Korea, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and some central Asian countries and boys in central and western Europe had the healthiest changes in anthropometric status over the past 3·5 decades because, compared with children and adolescents in other countries, they had a much larger gain in height than they did in BMI.

TL;DR: Significant variation is found in the global density of nephrologists and nephrology trainees and shortages in all care providers inNephrology; the gap was more prominent in low-income countries, particularly in African and South Asian ISN regions.

TL;DR: These comprehensive data show the capacity of countries (including low income countries) to provide optimal care for patients with end stage kidney disease and demonstrate substantial variability in the burden of such disease and capacity for kidney replacement therapy and conservative kidney management, which have implications for policy.

TL;DR: Significant gaps in services for kidney care and funding that were most apparent in LICs and lower middle-income countries were demonstrated.