Chronic Kidney Disease Related Statistics...

• More than 15% of people age 20 or older have Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) – that’s more than 33 million people (1)
• CKD rates have risen more than 20% in the past decade (1)
• 24 million people have diabetes, and this is expected to grow to over 44 million in the next 25 years – at a cost of $336 billion (2)
• About 70 million people have hypertension (3)
• 73 percent of population are overweight (4)
• The percent of school-aged children considered obese has tripled since 1980 (5)
• $9-33 billion – cumulative 10-yr savings to U.S. employers if we stem the tide of CKD (6)

... and all of these numbers continue to grow.

1. U.S. Renal Data System – 2009 Atlas of CKD,  www.usrds.org
2.  American Diabetes Association, Diabetes Care, Projecting the Future Diabetes Population Size and Related Costs for the U.S., Volume 32, Number 12, December 2009
3. CDC FastStats,  www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats
4. CDC – Data & Statistics,  www.cdc.gov/obesity/data
5. CDC – Various reports
6. 2007 Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy