Report of the Asian Forum of Chronic Kidney Disease Initiative (AFCKDI) 2007. "Current status and perspective of CKD in Asia": diversity and specificity among Asian countries

Clin Exp Nephrol (2009) 13:249256

DOI 10.1007/s10157-009-0156-8

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Report of the Asian Forum of Chronic Kidney Disease Initiative (AFCKDI) 2007. Current status and perspective of CKD in Asia: diversity and specicity among Asian countries

Yusuke Tsukamoto HaiYan Wang Gavin Becker Hung-Chun Chen Dae-Suk Han David Harris Enyu Imai Vivekanand Jha Philip K. T. Li Evan J. C. Lee Seiichi Matsuo Yasuhiko Tomino Kriang Tungsanga Kunihiro Yamagata Akira Hishida

Received: 3 October 2008 / Accepted: 18 December 2008 / Published online: 14 March 2009 Japanese Society of Nephrology 2009

Abstract The Japanese Society of Nephrology (JSN) sponsored the Asian Forum of CKD Initiative (AFCKDI) 2007 with the support of the International Society of Nephrology-Commission for Global Advancement in Nephrology (ISN-COMGAN), Asian Pacic Society of Nephrology (APSN), the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcome (KDIGO) and other national societies of

nephrology in the Asian Pacic region on 2728 May 2007 in Hamamatsu City, Japan. An international organising committee was established by leading experts of the CKD initiative. The main objective of this forum was to clarify the current status and perspectives of CKD and to promote coordination, collaboration and integration of initiatives in the Asian Pacic region. The forum received 56 papers

P. K. T. LiDepartment of Medicine and Therapeutics, Prince of Wales Hospital,The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong

E. J. C. LeeDepartment of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

S. MatsuoDepartment of Nephrology,Nagoya University School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Y. TominoDepartment of Medicine, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

K. TungsangaDepartment of Medicine,King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand

K. YamagataDepartment of Medicine, Tsukuba University School of Medicine, Ibaraki, Japan

A. HishidaDepartment of Nephrology, Hamamatsu Medical University, Shizuoka, Japan

Y. Tsukamoto (&)

Department of Nephrology, Shuwa General Hospital, Saitama, Japane-mail: [email protected]

H. WangDivision of Nephrology and Institute of Nephrology, The First Hospital, Peking University,Beijing, Peoples Republic of China

G. BeckerDepartment of Nephrology, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

H.-C. ChenDepartment of Nephrology, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

D.-S. HanDivision of Nephrology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

D. HarrisDepartment of Renal Medicine, Westmead Hospital, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

E. ImaiDepartment of Nephrology, Osaka University Hospital, Osaka, Japan

V. JhaDepartment of Nephrology, Postgraduate...