Twenty-year Follow-up of Patients With Epidemic Glomerulonephritis due to in Brazil.

Introduction: Post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis (PSGN) has a good prognosis in children, but few studies have evaluated the long-term renal outcomes in adults with PSGN.

Methods: In a follow-up study, 47 predominantly adult patients with PSGN due to group C were reassessed 20 years after an outbreak in Nova Serrana, Brazil. We evaluated clinical characteristics, renal outcomes, and the trajectory of the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) by the creatinine-based chronic kidney disease-epidemiology collaboration equation from 5 follow-up assessments.

Prevalence of chronic kidney disease in a city of southeast Brazil.

Introduction: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a worldwide public health alarming problem.

Objective: This study investigated the estimated prevalence of kidney disease in diabetic and high-risk hypertensive patients to cardiovascular disease registered in Hiperdia program of a city of southeast of Brazil.

Methods: It is a transversal study conducted between May 2014 and August 2015.