This is a recording of the opening from the KDIGO Controversies Conference on Maintaining Kidney Health and Preventing CKD, held in December 2023. This presentation is by Alberto Ortiz, MD (Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Spain), who co-chaired this conference with Katherine R. Tuttle, MD (University of Washington, United States)..
This conference brought together a global panel of patients and individuals with multidisciplinary clinical and scientific expertise, including nephrology, cardiology, endocrinology, pediatricians, pharmacology, and primary care to identify key issues in preventing CKD. The conference explored the current CKD definition, ways to identify and stratify individuals for CKD prevention, as well as pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic approaches to preventing CKD. Learn more: [ Ссылка ]
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