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Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a major public health problem in Costa Rica, but current estimates of incident CKD and its regional variation are not publicly available. In 2017, the Costa Rican government established a CKD registry and mandated reporting of all clinically diagnosed CKD in the country. We used this registry to estimate the annual distributions of newly reported CKD in Costa Rica by age, sex, and geographical region.
We used the CKD registry data collected from 2017 to 2023 to calculate the distribution of newly reported CKD cases overall and by province, and within sex (male and female) and age groups (0-39, 40-64, 65 or more years), which were standardized to the national population based on the 2022 census.
As expected, CKD incidence was higher in women than in men and increased with age, being the highest among individuals 65 years or older. However, patterns of CKD incidence by sex and age varied markedly across provinces. Overall, CKD incidence was higher in women than in men and increased with age, being the highest among individuals 65 years or older. Within geographic regions, CKD incidence varied by sex and age categories across provinces. Limón and Guanacaste, two coastal provinces, displayed, by far, the highest overall and age- and sex-specific incidence rates of CKD in the country (Figure). Among individuals in the younger age group (0 to 39 years), the rates of CKD were higher among men than women in Guanacaste (21.4 vs. 9.1 per 100,000 persons, respectively) but were higher among women than men in Limón (30.1 vs. 12.4 per 100,000 persons, respectively).
There are large geographic differences in CKD incidence across Costa Rica, with substantial variation by sex and age. Our findings confirm the higher CKD incidence among younger men in Guanacaste, supporting observations of an ongoing epidemic of CKD of unknown etiology in this region. They also indicate a high incidence of CKD in Limón, especially among women. This information can help local efforts to identify the potential causes of CKD among men and women and to allocate resources to treat and prevent CKD in areas with high CKD incidence.
