| Abstract|| | The exact prevalence of chronic kidney disease in
India is not clear in the absence of regular national registry
data and provided only by small observational series or rely on
reports from personal experience, but the quality of data is
quiet uneven. There are only three population based studies in
India commenting on the magnitude of chronic kidney disease. In
a prevention program started at community level in Chennai, the
reported prevalence is 0.86% in the project population and 1.39%
in the control region. The second study is based on Delhi
involving 4972 urban patients. The prevalence of chronic renal
failure (defined as serum creatinine more than 1.8 mg/dL) to be
0.79 % or 7852 per million/population. The third study perhaps
the only longitudinal study to identify the incidence of end
stage renal disease is based on 572,029 subjects residing in
city of Bhopal suggests that the average crude and age adjusted
incidence rates of end stage renal disease were 151 and 232 per
million populatio