Socio-economic status influences chronic kidney disease prevalence in primary care: a community-based cross-sectional analysis

摘要

Background. Primary care chronic kidney disease (CKD) registers report widely varying prevalence within the UK. We examined the effects of laboratory ascertainment and adjusting for practice-level variables on the variation in CKD prevalence. We carried out an Ayrshire-wide laboratory database analysis of primary care practices (PCPs).