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ArticleKidney medicine2026

Kidney health for all: caring for people, protecting the planet.

Raymond Vanholder, Dina Abdellatif, Augusto Cesar Soares Dos Santos, Ricardo Correa-Rotter, Natarajan Gopalakrishnan, Bill Wang, Stefanos Roumeliotis, Alessandro Balducci, Ágnes Haris, Manjusha Yadla and 1 more

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Article in Kidney medicine, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Raymond VanholderNephrology Section, Department of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.
Dina AbdellatifDepartment of Nephrology, Cairo University Hospital, Cairo, Egypt.
Augusto Cesar Soares Dos SantosFaculdade Ciencias Medicas de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Ricardo Correa-RotterInstituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico.
Natarajan GopalakrishnanTransplant Authority of Tamil Nadu, Chennai, India.
Bill WangHong Kong Kidney Foundation, Hong Kong, SAR, China.
Stefanos Roumeliotis2nd Department of Nephrology, AHEPA University Hospital, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Alessandro BalducciItalian Kidney Foundation Italy, Rome, Italy.
Ágnes HarisDepartment of Internal Medicine and Nephrology, Péterfy Hospital, Budapest, Hungary.
Manjusha YadlaDepartment of Nephrology, Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
Li-Li HsiaoRenal Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

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Abstract

The current kidney care model-focused on late-stage disease and in-center hemodialysis-is unsustainable, because of costs, environmental burden, poor outcomes, and reduced quality of life. The 78th World Health Assembly's recognition of kidney disease as a serious health threat presents a critical opportunity to reshape kidney care. Aligned with this, the 2026 World Kidney Day theme, "Kidney Health for All: Caring for People, Protecting the Planet," calls for a systematic change. A sustainable model must prioritize early detection and prevention, reducing the need for kidney replacement therapy. Transplantation and home dialysis benefit people with kidney failure, environment, and society. Dialysis itself must become more ecofriendly without compromising care quality, recognizing that planetary perturbations in turn affect kidney health. Conservative care should also be considered, particularly for elderly and frail patients, if the quality-of-life benefits outweigh the perspectives offered by dialysis. Achieving this shift requires coordinated action across all stakeholders; education and engagement of the public, policy makers, and health professionals to raise awareness about the threat of kidney disease; and an urgent move toward patient-centered care.

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environmentgreen nephrologypreventionscreeningsustainable kidney careWorld Kidney Day

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