CKD Care and Research in Guatemala: Overview and Meeting Report

Pablo Garcia; Carlos Mendoza; Joaquin Barnoya; Jose Monzón; Ann C Miller; Angie Aguilar-González; Julio Boj; Allan Cifuentes; Pedro Dávila; David Flood; Carolina Guzmán-Quilo; Agualuz Hernandez; Randall Lou-Meda; Eduardo Palacios; Vicente Sánchez-Polo; Regina Sosa; Peter Rohloff

doi:10.1016/j.ekir.2020.06.020

CKD Care and Research in Guatemala: Overview and Meeting Report

Kidney Int Rep. 2020 Jul 2;5(9):1567-1575. doi: 10.1016/j.ekir.2020.06.020. eCollection 2020 Sep.

Authors

Pablo Garcia^{1

2}, Carlos Mendoza³, Joaquin Barnoya^{4

5}, Jose Monzón⁵, Ann C Miller⁶, Angie Aguilar-González⁷, Julio Boj⁸, Allan Cifuentes⁹, Pedro Dávila¹⁰, David Flood^{2

11}, Carolina Guzmán-Quilo¹², Agualuz Hernandez^{10

13}, Randall Lou-Meda⁷, Eduardo Palacios¹⁴, Vicente Sánchez-Polo¹³, Regina Sosa^{10

13}, Peter Rohloff²

Affiliations

¹ Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA.
² Centro para Investigaciones sobre la Salud Indígena, Wuqu' Kawoq | Maya Health Alliance, Tecpán, Guatemala.
³ Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (Instituto de Nutrición de Centroamérica y Panamá, INCAP), Guatemala.
⁴ Unit for Cardiovascular Surgery (Unidad de Cirugía Cardiovascular de Guatemala, UNICAR), Guatemala.
⁵ Institute of Research and Higher Studies in Health Sciences (El Instituto de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Ciencias de la Salud, IECIS), Rafael Landívar University, Guatemala.
⁶ Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁷ Foundation for Children with Kidney Disease (Fundación para el Niño Enfermo Renal, FUNDANIER), Guatemala.
⁸ National Center for Chronic Renal Disease (Unidad Nacional de Atención al Enfermo Renal Crónico, UNAERC), Guatemala.
⁹ Guatemalan Ministry of Health, Guatemala.
¹⁰ Guatemalan Nephrology Association (Asociación Guatemalteca de Nefrología, AGN), Guatemala.
¹¹ National Clinicians Scholars Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
¹² Toxicology Department-SALTRA, Faculty of Chemical Sciences and Pharmacy, Universidad de San Carlos, Guatemala.
¹³ Guatemalan Institute of Social Security (Instituto Guatemalteco de Seguridad Social, IGSS), Guatemala.
¹⁴ Chronic Diseases Program of the Ministry of Health of Guatemala, Guatemala.

Abstract

On October 14-15, 2019, the 1st Symposium to Promote Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Research in Guatemala was held in Guatemala City, Guatemala. The Symposium hosted more than 50 attendees, including health care professionals, policy makers, researchers, and leaders of nongovernmental organizations. The meeting's objectives were to (1) share clinical and health delivery experiences, (2) disseminate local research, and (3) establish consensus priorities for future research. In this report, we review the state of CKD nephrology in Guatemala, summarize experiences shared during the meeting from representatives of the clinical settings in Guatemala where CKD care is provided, and describe consensus priorities for future research.

Keywords: Guatemala; Latin America; end-stage kidney disease; global health; global kidney care; meeting report; nephrology.

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