1st World Kidney day today

March 9, 2006
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The World Kidney Day is being observed throughout the world amidst various programmes to raise awareness about chronic kidney disease.

The aim of celebrating the day is to increase awareness of chronic kidney disease and its associated cardiovascular morbidity and mortality and to draw attention to the urgent global need for early detection and prevention of chronic kidney disease.

Chronic kidney disease and other major chronic non-communicable diseases will claim the lives of 36 million people by the year 2015, reports said.

As an immediate response to this alarming prospect, the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) and the International Federation of Kidney (IFKF) jointly announced the launch of an annual World Kidney Day (WKD) to be held on the second Thursday of March, beginning with Thursday March 9, 2006.

The principal focus of World Kidney Day (WKD) is to raise awareness among general physicians and primary healthcare professionals of the role of the kidney as a risk marker in related chronic diseases (such as diabetes and cardiovascular diseases) and the pressing need for early detection of any form of kidney impairment.