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The incidence of new end-stage renal failure (ESRF) treated with dialysis in Singapore has risen from 96 per million population (pmp) in 1992 to 167 pmp in 2000.1,2 This near-doubling is not unique to Singapore, and many other Asian countries have seen a similar increase in the incidence of...

Singapore has an estimated annual incidence of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) of 158 per million population.1 However, the number of children who develop renal failure, and requiring renal replacement therapy, is relatively low compared to adults. The incidence of ESRD in children ranges from 5 to 6 per million...

Hypertension, or perhaps more accurately high blood pressure, plays a pivotal role in the progression of renal failure. The dichotomy of “hypertension” and “normotension” fails to recognise that the risks of adverse cardiovascular and renal events are directly related to increasing levels of blood pressure, even within the “normotensive”...

By 2010 there will be more than 2 million patients worldwide on maintenance dialysis, a 400% increase in 20 years.1 This increase, occurring predominantly in developing nations, is being driven especially by a worldwide increase in the incidence of diabetes, and is too great to be offset by increased...