CHRONIC KIDNEY disease is a major public health problem. Improving outcomes for people with chronic kidney disease requires a coordinated world-wide approach to prevention of adverse outcomes through defining the disease and its outcomes, estimating disease prevalence, identifying earlier stages of disease and antecedent risk factors, and detection and treatment for populations at increased risk for adverse outcomes. The goal of Part 4 is to create an operational definition and classification of stages of chronic kidney disease and provide estimates of disease prevalence by stage, to develop a broad overview of a “clinical action plan” for evaluation and management of each stage of chronic kidney disease, and to define individuals at increased risk for developing chronic kidney disease. Studies of disease prevalence were evaluated as described in Appendix 1, Table 150. Data from NHANES III were used to develop estimates of disease prevalence in adults as described in Appendix 2.
