Chronic Kidney Disease: Clinical Updates and Perspectives, Opportunities and Challenges, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Nephrology & Urology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 76
Special Issue Editor
Interests: chronic kidney disease progression; cardiovascular risk factors; diabetes mellitus; obesity; kidney transplantation; survival; pathophysiology of CKD; hemodialysis; peritoneal dialysis; metabolic and mineral bone disease
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Dear Colleagues,
It is my pleasure to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue entitled “Chronic Kidney Disease: Clinical Updates and Perspectives, Opportunities and Challenges, 2nd Edition”. In our previous Special Issue, “Chronic Kidney Disease: Clinical Updates and Perspectives, Opportunities and Challenges”, we collected high-quality papers covering a wide range of topics. The current Special Issue is a continuation of the previous series.
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a devastating condition that has reached epidemic levels due to the aging of the population and the increasing prevalence of diabetes mellitus, hypertension and obesity. The global estimated prevalence of CKD is 13.4%. It has a substantial impact on morbidity and mortality: the Global Burden of Diseases study estimated that 1.2 million deaths were due to kidney failure and 18 million years of life lost from cardiovascular diseases were directly attributable to CKD. Even in its early stages, CKD is associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Managing CKD-associated cardiovascular risk and the preservation of kidney function can improve outcomes and be achieved through non-pharmacologic strategies and CKD-targeted pharmacological interventions. Despite different management strategies, the progression of CKD to end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) currently remains inevitable.
In this Special Issue, we aim to focus on novel strategies that delay CKD progression and improve the life expectancy of CKD patients by reducing cardiovascular morbidity and mortality and by improving the management of ESKD in dialyzed and transplanted patients.
The Editor of this Special Issue invites you to submit relevant papers for consideration and expeditious publication after a vigorous peer review. We particularly welcome papers discussing novel concepts in the area of fighting ESKD. All original investigations, including clinical studies, as well as meta-analyses and review papers, will be considered.
Dr. Botond Csiky
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- chronic kidney disease progression
- cardiovascular risk factors
- diabetes mellitus
- obesity
- kidney transplantation
- survival
- pathophysiology of CKD
- hemodialysis
- peritoneal dialysis
- metabolic and mineral bone disease
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