IgA Nephropathy Epidemiology

IgA Nephropathy (IgAN), also called Berger’s disease, is an autoimmune rare disease affecting the kidneys. It impairs blood filtration in the kidneys' tiny blood channels. An aberrant protein destroys the filtering unit (glomerulus) inside the kidneys, causing IgA Nephropathy. It is estimated that 20–40% of persons...

Chronic diseases (CDs) pose a significant challenge to healthcare in the 21st century. Factors such as population aging, lifestyle-modifiable risk factors, a decline in early-life infectious diseases, sedentary lifestyle, unhealthy food habits have resulted in the emergence of chronic diseases as a major global hea...