UC Irvine Health to use $ 3.4 million NIH grant to examine "the transition of care in CKD"

UC Irvine Health to use $ 3.4 million NIH grant to examine "the transition of care in CKD" -

UC Irvine Health will use a grant of 3.4 million $ from the National Institute of diabetes and digestive and kidney diseases of the National Institutes of health to examine the "transition of care in chronic kidney disease (CKD)."

price is a three US renal Data System five-year contracts awarded by the NIH on universities to consider chronic kidney disease and its risk factors and consequences, including the terms and outcomes of patients with CKD treatment . the health Division UC Irvine nephrology and hypertension won a national competition to carry this prestigious grant to the University of California, Irvine campus.

"Our studies during the next half a decade examine the nature and results of the transition to dialysis treatment or a kidney transplant that occurs in more than 100,000 Americans with chronic kidney disease advanced every year, "said Dr. Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, principal investigator and chief the UC Irvine health Division of nephrology and hypertension.

price will establish the medical center UC Irvine in Orange, Calif., As a special study center US Renal Data System for five years. The data system is a national information center on chronic kidney disease and end stage and treatment modality for these patients. It collaborates with federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the United Network for Organ Sharing and 18 ESRD networks across the country.

The project is at UC Irvine Medical Center and the Medical Center Veterans in Long Beach, California. the study population is made up of former fighters treated at VA medical centers across the country and members of Kaiser Permanente Southern California who are moving to renal replacement therapy.

"These awards recognize the exceptional level of expertise and the important contributions of Nephrology & Hypertension UC Irvine to study the growing epidemic of chronic kidney disease worldwide," said Kalantar.

grant also allows UC Irvine to provide collaboration award to Mr. Csaba P. Kovesdy at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis and Dr. Steven J. Jacobsen Kaiser Permanente Department of Research & Southern California Evaluation.

An estimated 13 percent of Americans have chronic kidney disease, which increases their risk for early death due primarily to cardiovascular disease. Each year in the United States, 100,000 people develop end-stage renal disease requiring dialysis or a kidney transplant for survival.