RESUMO
A total community study of acute renal failure (ARF) was carried out in Israel. The mean annual incidence was 4.8/100,000, the risk being 50% higher in males than in females. It was found that ARF is due primarily to a multiplicity of factors and rarely to a single cause; the high mortality associated with ARF is related to the patient's basic underlying condition. The epidemiology of ARF results from a compilation of the various conditions leading to it, and would, therefore, vary according to the differential distributions of these conditions in the population.
Assuntos
Injúria Renal Aguda/epidemiologia , Injúria Renal Aguda/etiologia , Injúria Renal Aguda/terapia , Adolescente , Adulto , Criança , Pré-Escolar , Etnicidade , Feminino , Humanos , Lactente , Israel , Judeus , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Diálise Renal , Uremia/epidemiologia , Uremia/etiologia , Uremia/terapiaRESUMO
A nationwide morbidity study of end-stage kidney disease in Israel revealed a mean annual incidence rate, in the two-year period 1965-1966, of 70 cases per million per year requiring maintenance hemodialysis in the age 15-59 Jewish population. Chronic glomerulonephritis (38%) chronic pyelonephritis (24.9%) and polycystic disease (8.1%) represented the three most common diagnostic entities. It is suggested that the load of new cases on available dialysis units will not increase indefinitely but that an equilibrium will be established between the intake of new candidates and the outflow due to deaths and transplantation.
