Pediatric Glomerular Diseases in North India-Epidemiology and Clinicopathologic Correlation.

There have been reports from USA, Brazil, and India that show an increasing trend for idiopathic FSGS in the 1980s, 1990s, as well as 2000s.[ 24 ] The increase in incidence of FSGS from USA and Europe has been speculated to be related to a recent worldwide epidemic of obesity by some authors.[ 22 ] However, on the contrary, studies from China[ 2 ] and Arab countries[ 15 ] observed significant decreasing rates over time.

also in 63,971 other papers