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Wellington, May 14 – New Zealand’s Polynesian population has one of the highest rates of serious kidney disease in the world, a Sydney conference will be told.
The conference, to be held from May 30 to June 1, will address the high prevalence of serious renal (kidney) disease in the world’s indigenous peoples.
Australia’s Aboriginal population and New Zealand’s Polynesian peoples had some of the highest rates of kidney disease in the world — and the rates were rising, a statement from the Renal Disease in Indigenous Populations group said.
Because research and clinical expertise tended to be concentrated in developed nations, the issue of kidney disease among indigenous or transitional populations had been marginalised.
"With this meeting, Australia has both an opportunity and a major responsibility to help focus expert international medical attention on the high social, cultural and economic costs of failing to manage serious kidney disease amongst these populations," Dr David Pugsley, deputy director of the renal unit at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital of South Australia, said.
The conference would feature nearly 30 national and international speakers from 20 countries, and new data would be presented on the factors believed to contribute to the high incidence of kidney disease in indigenous peoples, Dr Pugsley said.
These included genetic factors, lifestyle, the westernisation of traditional cultures, a heavy burden of infection, foetal and infant malnutrition, obesity and alcohol dependence.
The conference would also focus on factors such as:
* Patterns of kidney disease amongst indigenous or transitional populations.
* Screening for renal disease. Chronic kidney disease was often "silent", unaccompanied by either disfigurement or pain, and could go unrecognised until any prospect of prevention or cure had receded.
* End-stage renal failure.
* Cultural attitudes to the disease and treatment.
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