- Finds cause of death to be end-stage renal disease
- Recommends urgent interventions to prevent disease progression
- Thompson, M. James, N. Wiebe, B. Hemmelgarn, B. Manns, S. Klarenbach, and M. Tonelli have found in the “Cause of death in patients with reduced kidney function” that deaths from cardiovascular disease or infection are higher while H. Alani, A. Tamimi and N. Tamimi’s “Cardiovascular co-morbidity in CKD: Current knowledge and future research needs” found that cardiovascular diseases (including an increase in heart failure and valvular disease) have been reported as the main cause of death in CKD.