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Stel VS, Boenink R, Astley ME, Boerstra BA, Radunovic D, Skrunes R, Ruiz San Millán JC, Slon Roblero MF, Bell S, Ucio Mingo P, Ten Dam MAGJ, Ambühl PM, Resic H, Rodríguez Arévalo OL, Aresté-Fosalba N, Tort I Bardolet J, Lassalle M, Trujillo-Alemán S, Indridason OS, Artamendi M, Finne P, Rodríguez Camblor M, Nitsch D, Hommel K, Moustakas G, Kerschbaum J, Lausevic M, Jager KJ, Ortiz A, Kramer A. A comparison of the epidemiology of kidney replacement therapy between Europe and the United States: 2021 data of the ERA Registry and the USRDS. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2024:gfae040. [PMID: 38439701 DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfae040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/06/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND AND HYPOTHESIS This paper compares the most recent data on the incidence and prevalence of kidney replacement therapy (KRT), kidney transplantation rates, and mortality on KRT from Europe to those from the United States (US), including comparisons of treatment modalities (haemodialysis (HD), peritoneal dialysis (PD), and kidney transplantation (KTx)). METHODS Data were derived from the annual reports of the European Renal Association (ERA) Registry and the United States Renal Data System (USRDS). The European data include information from national and regional renal registries providing the ERA Registry with individual patient data. Additional analyses were performed to present results for all participating European countries together. RESULTS In 2021, the KRT incidence in the US (409.7 per million population (pmp)) was almost 3-fold higher than in Europe (144.4 pmp). Despite the substantial difference in KRT incidence, approximately the same proportion of patients initiated HD (Europe: 82%, US: 84%), PD (14%; 13% respectively), or underwent pre-emptive KTx (4%; 3% respectively). The KRT prevalence in the US (2436.1 pmp) was 2-fold higher than in Europe (1187.8 pmp). Within Europe, approximately half of all prevalent patients were living with a functioning graft (47%), while in the US, this was one third (32%). The number of kidney transplantations performed was almost twice as high in the US (77.0 pmp) compared to Europe (41.6 pmp). The mortality of patients receiving KRT was 1.6-fold higher in the US (157.3 per 1000 patient years) compared to Europe (98.7 per 1000 patient years). CONCLUSIONS The US had a much higher KRT incidence, prevalence, and mortality compared to Europe, and despite a higher kidney transplantation rate, a lower proportion of prevalent patients with a functioning graft.
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Affiliation(s)
- Vianda S Stel
- ERA Registry, Department of Medical Informatics, Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Quality of Care, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- ERA Registry, Department of Medical Informatics, Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Quality of Care, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- ERA Registry, Department of Medical Informatics, Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Quality of Care, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- ERA Registry, Department of Medical Informatics, Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Quality of Care, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Clinical Center of Montenegro, Clinic for Nephrology, Podgorica, Montenegro
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- Department of Medicine, Haukeland university Hospital, Bergen, Norway
- Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Nephrology Department, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, University of Cantabria, IDIVAL, Santander, Cantabria, Spain
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- Scottish Renal Registry, Public Health Scotland, Meridian Court, Glasgow, UK
- Division of Population Health and Genomics, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
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- Coordinación Autonómica de Trasplantes de Castilla y León, Dirección General de Asistencia Sanitaria y Humanización, Gerencia Regional de Salud de Castilla y León, Valladolid, Castilla y León, Spain
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- Society for Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Registry of Kidney Patients of the Valencian Community, General Directorate of Public Health, Ministry of Health, Valencia, Spain
- Health and Well-being Technologies Program, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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- Nephrology Department, Virgen Macarena Hospital, Seville, Andalusia, Spain
- Information System of Andalusian Transplant Coordination (SICATA), Seville, Andalusia, Spain
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- Catalan Transplant Organization (OCATT), Catalan Health Service, Department of Health Barcelona, Spain
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- REIN registry (Renal Epidemiology and Information Network), Paris, France
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- Health Quality Assessment and Information System Service, Dirección General de Programas Asistenciales, Servicio Canario de la Salud, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
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- Division of Nephrology, Landspitali-The National University Hospital of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Nephrology Department, Hospital San Pedro, Logroño, La Rioja, Spain
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- Department of Nephrology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Renal Unit, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. UK Kidney Association, Bristol, UK
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- Nephrology department, General hospital of Athens "G.Gennimatas", Athens, Greece
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- Austrian Dialysis and Transplant Registry, Department of Internal Medicine IV - Nephrology and Hypertension, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
- Clinic of Nephrology, University Clinical Centre of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
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- ERA Registry, Department of Medical Informatics, Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Quality of Care, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, IIS-Fundacion Jimenez Diaz UAM, Madrid, Spain
- Department of Medicine, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- ERA Registry, Department of Medical Informatics, Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Quality of Care, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Kramer A, Boenink R, Noordzij M, Bosdriesz JR, Stel VS, Beltrán P, Ruiz JC, Seyahi N, Comas Farnés J, Stendahl M, Garneata L, Winzeler R, Golan E, Lopot F, Korejwo G, Bonthuis M, Lassalle M, Slon Roblero MF, Kuzema V, Hommel K, Stojceva-Taneva O, Asberg A, Kramar R, Hemmelder MH, De Meester J, Vazelov E, Andrusev A, Castro de la Nuez P, Helve J, Komissarov K, Casula A, Magaz Á, Santiuste de Pablos C, Bubić I, Traynor JP, Ioannou K, Idrizi A, Palsson R, des Grottes JM, Spustova V, Tolaj-Avdiu M, Jarraya F, Nordio M, Ziginskiene E, Massy ZA, Jager KJ. The ERA-EDTA Registry Annual Report 2017: a summary. Clin Kidney J 2020; 13:693-709. [PMID: 32897277 PMCID: PMC7467580 DOI: 10.1093/ckj/sfaa048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2020] [Accepted: 03/16/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Background This article presents a summary of the 2017 Annual Report of the European Renal Association–European Dialysis and Transplant Association (ERA-EDTA) Registry and describes the epidemiology of renal replacement therapy (RRT) for end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in 37 countries. Methods The ERA-EDTA Registry received individual patient data on patients undergoing RRT for ESRD in 2017 from 32 national or regional renal registries and aggregated data from 21 registries. The incidence and prevalence of RRT, kidney transplantation activity and survival probabilities of these patients were calculated. Results In 2017, the ERA-EDTA Registry covered a general population of 694 million people. The incidence of RRT for ESRD was 127 per million population (pmp), ranging from 37 pmp in Ukraine to 252 pmp in Greece. A total of 62% of patients were men, 52% were ≥65 years of age and 23% had diabetes mellitus as the primary renal disease. The treatment modality at the onset of RRT was haemodialysis for 85% of patients. On 31 December 2017, the prevalence of RRT was 854 pmp, ranging from 210 pmp in Ukraine to 1965 pmp in Portugal. The transplant rate in 2017 was 33 pmp, ranging from 3 pmp in Ukraine to 103 pmp in the Spanish region of Catalonia. For patients commencing RRT during 2008–12, the unadjusted 5-year patient survival probability for all RRT modalities combined was 50.8%.
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Affiliation(s)
- Anneke Kramer
- ERA-EDTA Registry, Department of Medical Informatics, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- ERA-EDTA Registry, Department of Medical Informatics, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- ERA-EDTA Registry, Department of Medical Informatics, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- ERA-EDTA Registry, Department of Medical Informatics, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- ERA-EDTA Registry, Department of Medical Informatics, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Public Health Directorate, RERCA Registry, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain
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- Department of Nephrology, Valdecilla Hospital, University of Cantabria, IDIVAL, Santander, Cantabria, Spain
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- Department of Nephrology, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Catalan Renal Registry, Catalan Transplant Organization, Health Department, Generalitat of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
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- Swedish Renal Registry, Department of Internal Medicine, Jonkoping Regional Hospital, Jonkoping, Sweden
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- Romanian Renal Registry, Department of Internal Medicine and Nephrology, "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania
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- Institute of Nephrology, Waid and Triemli City Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Israel Renal Registry, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
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- Department of Medicine, General University Hospital, Prague - Strahov, Czech Republic
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- Department of Nephrology, Gdańsk Medical University, Gdansk, Poland
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- ESPN/ERA-EDTA Registry, Department of Medical Informatics, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Renal Epidemiology and Information Network Registry, Agence de la biomédecine, Saint-Denis La Plaine, France
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- Department of Nephrology, Riga Stradins Clinical University Hospital, Riga, Latvia.,Department of Internal Medicine, Riga Stradins University, Riga, Latvia.,Latvian Nephrology Association, Riga, Latvia
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- Department of Transplantation Medicine, Oslo University Hospital - Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway
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- Dutch Renal Registry, Nefrovisie Foundation, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Dialysis Clinic, "Alexandrovska" University Hospital, Sofia Medical University, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Chronic Dialysis, Russia & CIS Medical Department, Company "Baxter" AO, Moscow, Russia.,Renal Replacement Registry, Russian Dialysis Society, Moscow, Russia
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- Information System of the Autonomic Transplant Coordination of Andalucia (SICATA), Seville, Andalucia, Spain
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- Finnish Registry for Kidney Diseases, Helsinki, Finland.,Abdominal Center, Nephrology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Minsk Scientific and Practical Center of Surgery, Transplantation and Hematology, Minsk, Belarus
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- Unidad de Información de Pacientes Renales - UNIPAR, Basque Country, Spain
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- Murcia Renal Registry, Department of Epidemiology, Murcia Regional Health Authority, IMIB-Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain.,CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia.,Department of Clinical Sciences I, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
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- Scottish Renal Registry, Meridian Court, ISD Scotland, Glasgow, UK
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- Cyprus Renal Registry, Nicosia, Cyprus.,Nephrology Department, American Medical Center, Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Service of Nephrology, UHC "Mother Teresa", Tirana, Albania
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- Division of Nephrology, Landspitali-The National University Hospital of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.,Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacotherapy, Slovak Medical University, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Service de Néphrologie, Faculte de medicine, CHU H Chaker Sfax and LR19ES11, Sfax, Tunisia
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- Division of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, AULSS2 Treviso, Italy
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- Lithuanian Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Association, Kaunas, Lithuania.,Nephrology Department, Medical Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Division of Nephrology, Ambroise Paré University Hospital, Boulogne-Billancourt, France.,Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) Unit 1018, Team 5, Research Centre in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), University of Paris Ouest-Versailles-St Quentin-en-Yveline, Villejuif, France
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- ERA-EDTA Registry, Department of Medical Informatics, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Kramer A, Pippias M, Noordzij M, Stel VS, Andrusev AM, Aparicio-Madre MI, Arribas Monzón FE, Åsberg A, Barbullushi M, Beltrán P, Bonthuis M, Caskey FJ, Castro de la Nuez P, Cernevskis H, De Meester J, Finne P, Golan E, Heaf JG, Hemmelder MH, Ioannou K, Kantaria N, Komissarov K, Korejwo G, Kramar R, Lassalle M, Lopot F, Macário F, Mackinnon B, Pálsson R, Pechter Ü, Piñera VC, Santiuste de Pablos C, Segarra-Medrano A, Seyahi N, Slon Roblero MF, Stojceva-Taneva O, Vazelov E, Winzeler R, Ziginskiene E, Massy Z, Jager KJ. The European Renal Association - European Dialysis and Transplant Association (ERA-EDTA) Registry Annual Report 2016: a summary. Clin Kidney J 2019; 12:702-720. [PMID: 31583095 PMCID: PMC6768305 DOI: 10.1093/ckj/sfz011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Background This article summarizes the ERA-EDTA Registry’s 2016 Annual Report, by describing the epidemiology of renal replacement therapy (RRT) for end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in 2016 within 36 countries. Methods In 2017 and 2018, the ERA-EDTA Registry received data on patients undergoing RRT for ESRD in 2016 from 52 national or regional renal registries. In all, 32 registries provided individual patient data and 20 provided aggregated data. The incidence and prevalence of RRT and the survival probabilities of these patients were determined. Results In 2016, the incidence of RRT for ESRD was 121 per million population (pmp), ranging from 29 pmp in Ukraine to 251 pmp in Greece. Almost two-thirds of patients were men, over half were aged ≥65 years and almost a quarter had diabetes mellitus as their primary renal diagnosis. Treatment modality at the start of RRT was haemodialysis for 84% of patients. On 31 December 2016, the prevalence of RRT was 823 pmp, ranging from 188 pmp in Ukraine to 1906 pmp in Portugal. In 2016, the transplant rate was 32 pmp, varying from 3 pmp in Ukraine to 94 pmp in the Spanish region of Catalonia. For patients commencing RRT during 2007–11, the 5-year unadjusted patient survival probability on all RRT modalities combined was 50.5%. For 2016, the incidence and prevalence of RRT were higher among men (187 and 1381 pmp) than women (101 and 827 pmp), and men had a higher rate of kidney transplantation (59 pmp) compared with women (33 pmp). For patients starting dialysis and for patients receiving a kidney transplant during 2007–11, the adjusted patient survival probabilities appeared to be higher for women than for men.
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Affiliation(s)
- Anneke Kramer
- ERA-EDTA Registry, Department of Medical Informatics, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- ERA-EDTA Registry, Department of Medical Informatics, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- ERA-EDTA Registry, Department of Medical Informatics, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- ERA-EDTA Registry, Department of Medical Informatics, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- State-financed health institution, City Clinical Hospital #52 of Moscow City Health Department, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Transplantation Medicine, Oslo University Hospital-Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway
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- ERA-EDTA Registry, Department of Medical Informatics, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,ESPN/ERA-EDTA Registry, Department of Medical Informatics, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- UK Renal Registry, Southmead Hospital, Bristol, UK.,Population Health Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Information System of the Autonomic Transplant Coordination of Andalucia (SICATA), Seville, Andalucia, Spain
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Riga Stradins University, Riga, Latvia
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- Department of Nephrology, Dialysis and Hypertension, Dutch-speaking Belgian Renal Registry (NBVN), Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
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- Finnish Registry for Kidney Diseases, Helsinki, Finland.,Nephrology, Abdominal Center, University of Helsinki, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Israel Renal Registry-ISNH, Hemodialysis Unit, Meir Medical Center, Kfar-Saba, Israel
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- Department of Medicine, Zealand University Hospital, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Dutch Renal Registry Renine, Nefrovisie Foundation, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Nephrology Department, Apollonion Private Hospital, Nicosia, Cyprus.,Nephrology Department, American Medical Center, Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Georgian Renal Registry, Dialysis, Nephrology, and Transplantation Union of Georgia, Tbilisi State Medical University, Tbilisi, Georgia
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- Belarusian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, Minsk, Belarus
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- Department of Nephrology, Gdańsk Medical University, Gdansk, Poland
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- REIN Registry, Agence de la biomédecine, Saint-Denis La Plaine, France
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- Department of Medicine Prague, General University Hospital, Prague-Strahov, Czech Republic
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- Nephrology Department, Centro Hospitalar e Universitario de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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- Scottish Renal Registry, Glasgow Renal & Transplant Unit, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow, UK
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- Division of Nephrology, Landspitali - The National University Hospital of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.,Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Tartu University, Tartu, Estonia
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- Servicio de Nefrología, Hospital Universitario Valdecilla, Santander, Spain
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- Registro de Enfermos Renales de la Región de Murcia, Servicio de Epidemiología, Consejería de Sanidad, IMIB-Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain
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- Department of Nephrology, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Istanbul University, Cerrahpaşa, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Dialysis Clinic, "Alexandrovska" University Hospital, Sofia Medical University, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Institute of Nephrology, Stadtspital Waid Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Lithuanian Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Association, Kaunas, Lithuania.,Nephrology Department, Medical Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Division of Nephrology, Ambroise Paré University Hospital, Boulogne-Billancourt, France.,Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) Unit 1018 team5, Research Centre in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), University of Paris Ouest-Versailles-St Quentin-en-Yveline, Villejuif, France
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- ERA-EDTA Registry, Department of Medical Informatics, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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