Prevalence of anemia in patients with chronic kidney disease in Japan: A nationwide, cross-sectional cohort study using data from the Japan Chronic Kidney Disease Database (J-CKD-DB).
Tadashi SofueNaoki NakagawaEiichiro KandaHajime NagasuKunihiro MatsushitaMasaomi NangakuShoichi MaruyamaTakashi WadaYoshio TeradaKunihiro YamagataIchiei NaritaMotoko YanagitaHitoshi SugiyamaTakashi ShigematsuTakafumi ItoKouichi TamuraYoshitaka IsakaHirokazu OkadaKazuhiko TsuruyaHitoshi YokoyamaNaoki NakashimaHiromi KataokaKazuhiko OheMihoko OkadaNaoki KashiharaPublished in: PloS one (2020)
We determined the prevalence of anemia and utilization rate of ESAs in Japanese patients with CKD using data from a nationwide cohort study.