Introduction: Chronic kidney disease: A burgeoning health epidemic

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Chronic Renal Insufficiency 93%
• Epidemics 88%
• Chronic Kidney Failure 54%
• Health 49%
• Kidney 43%
• Medicare 31%
• Pharmacists 20%
• Dialysis 17%
• Endocrinologists 13%
• Nephrologists 12%
• Data Systems 12%
• Nutritionists 12%
• Budgets 11%
• Primary Care Physicians 10%
• Kidney Diseases 10%
• Patient Education 10%
• Renal Insufficiency 9%
• Disease Progression 8%
• Comorbidity 8%
• Patient Care 7%
• Quality of Life 6%
• Transplants 6%
• Costs and Cost Analysis 6%
• Delivery of Health Care 6%
• Growth 5%
• Incidence 4%
• Population 4%
• Therapeutics 3%

Social Sciences

• end stage renal disease 71%
• health 46%
• pharmacist 17%
• chronic illness 15%
• management 15%
• comorbidity 9%
• staging 9%
• physiology 8%
• patient care 8%
• dollar 7%
• damages 6%
• incidence 6%
• quality of life 6%
• budget 6%
• physician 5%
• health care 5%
• cause 4%
• costs 4%
• education 2%

Chemical Compounds

• Dialysis 100%
• Metabolic 83%