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Profiles of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with kidney disease
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Topic: First Nations people
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2020) Profiles of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with kidney disease, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 06 November 2024.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2020). Profiles of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with kidney disease. Canberra: AIHW.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Profiles of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with kidney disease. AIHW, 2020.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Profiles of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with kidney disease. Canberra: AIHW; 2020.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2020, Profiles of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with kidney disease, AIHW, Canberra.
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Biomedical test results from the 2012–13 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey found that almost 1 in 5 Indigenous Australian adults showed signs of chronic kidney disease. This report shows that the likelihood of having chronic kidney disease increases with age, and is higher among people with high blood pressure or diabetes, and among those living in remote areas. It also shows that rates of hospitalisation for kidney disease or treatment for end-stage kidney disease among Indigenous Australians tends to be highest in remote areas, particularly in Central Australia.
- ISBN: 978-1-76054-712-7
- Cat. no: IHW 229
- Pages: 60
Findings from this report:
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In 2012–13, 18% of Indigenous Australians aged 18 and over had biomedical signs of chronic kidney disease
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Indigenous Australian adults are twice as likely as non-Indigenous adults to have chronic kidney disease
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Indigenous Australian adults with CKD were more likely than those without to have diabetes or cardiovascular disease
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Rates of hospitalisation for kidney disease were highest in Tennant Creek and Apatula in the Northern Territory