General Information
Deaths from chronic diseases are set to increase by 17% over the next decade and will disproportionately affect populations in low- and middle-income countries where the cost of treating these diseases already accounts for 80% of their healthcare budgets. The main highlights outlined below suffices to demonstrate ISN’s international leadership role in organizing prevention orientated events of the highest caliber.
Prevention of Vascular Diseases in the Emerging World: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Global Health: Dec. 2005, Bellagio, Italy
This second prevention summit meeting, also supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, convened eminent health experts and policy makers from the International Atherosclerosis Society, the International Diabetes Federation, the International Society of Hypertension, the World Health Organization, the World Heart Federation, and the World Bank. The debate on how best to take a multidisciplinary and global approach to this pandemic resulted in the strategic recommendation of the creation of a multidisciplinary (cardio-) vascular coalition to address the challenge of managing the global and accelerating burden of vascular diseases.
KI-2006-Bellagio Meeting Report
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Prevention Strategies for Chronic Kidney Disease in Latin America: A Strategy for the Next Decade: Nov. 2005, Villarica, Chile.
38 invited participants representing 19 Latin American countries convened to discuss the current state of chronic kidney disease in Latin America, its incidence, prevalence and treatment. The two-day meeting resulted in several recommendations ranging from accurate data collection to greater recognition of risk factors, the need for primary prevention, more training, to increasing public awareness and advocacy programs, which have been taken back to the individual countries for implementation.
NCPneph-2005 Villarica Recommendation
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Prevention of Progressive Renal Failure: Its Global Impact: Nov. 2004, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
The multi-disciplinary conference brought together eminent speakers from both the United States and Europe in the fields of nephrology, cardiology and diabetes in the presence of the Chief Medical Officer of the European Union. Participants agreed that an integrated approach to the prevention of chronic diseases was essential in order to raise awareness with health ministers and gain support from national health services. This in turn led to the ISN issuing a “Call to Action”, appealing to national health bodies worldwide to consider the urgent implementation of proactive albuminuria screening as an effective means towards early identification of minor renal damage.
Prevention of Progression of Renal Disease’: June 2004, Hong Kong
This event which attracted over 1,200 participants from 39 countries, resulted in 15 consensus statements for Asia addressing the screening for chronic kidney disease, evaluation and estimating progression of chronic kidney disease and measures to prevent the progression of chronic kidney disease.
Hong Kong-2004 Concensus Statement
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Prevention of Renal Disease in the Emerging World: Toward Global Health Equality’: March 2004, Bellagio, Italy
This special ISN summit was sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and held in their renowned Bellagio Study Centre in Italy. It convened 23 of the world’s leading nephrologists, including 9 from developing countries, and a representative from the World Health Organization’s program on chronic disease management. Reflecting the importance of the presentations and outcomes of the summit, a Kidney International supplement reported on the event in September 2005.
KI-2004-Bellagio Declaration
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