HealthLumen Blog
World Kidney Day 2024: Kidney health for all
It is estimated that a staggering 1 in 10 people worldwide are living with kidney disease (1). Despite its high global prevalence and mortality, CKD has surprisingly often been overlooked on health agendas across the globe up until now. In particular, low and middle-income countries are disproportionately affected by CKD and kidney failure, with a […]
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How rare is rare? Quantifying the hidden population living with rare genetic diseases using genetic databases
Rare Disease Day is fast approaching, with a programme of activity being lined up, through international initiatives and country-specific programmes, in the UK for example to highlight challenges, raise awareness and generate change for the 300 million people worldwide living with one or more of the roughly 8,000 known rare diseases, as well as their […]
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Join us at upcoming conferences to discuss the latest findings in the epidemiology of rare diseases.
It’s a well-established truism that rare diseases, whilst rare at the individual disease level, are collectively quite common, with some 300 million people worldwide living with a rare disease. However, are rare diseases actually as rare at the individual disease level as current estimates suggest – what could be the extent of the “hidden population”? […]
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NEWS: Policy interventions could reduce chronic liver disease and liver cancer in Europe by up to 7% by 2030
Europe has the largest burden of diagnosed liver disease globally with almost 30 million people in the European Union alone estimated to be living with a chronic liver condition. Liver cirrhosis accounts for 1.8% of all deaths reported in Europe (170,000 deaths annually) with a 100% increase in cirrhosis deaths observed across the Eastern European […]
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