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Cross-sectional study of association between socioeconomic indicators and chronic kidney disease in rural–urban Ghana: the RODAM study

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  • David N Adjei Department of Public Health, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, School of Biomedical and Allied Health Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Karien Stronks Department of Public Health, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Dwomoa Adu Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Ghana and Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Erik Beune Department of Public Health, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Karlijn Meeks Department of Public Health, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Liam Smeeth Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Juliet Addo Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ellis Owusu-Dabo Department of Public Health, Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch Julius Global Health, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Centre, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands Division of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Frank P Mockenhaupt Institute of Tropical Medicine and International Health, Charité – University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ina Danquah Department of Molecular Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Nuthetal, Germany Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Joachim Spranger Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Berlin, Germany Center for Cardiovascular Research (CCR), Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Silver Bahendeka MKPGMS - Uganda Martyrs University, Kampala, Uganda PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ama De-Graft Aikins Department of Population studies, Regional Institute for Population Studies, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Charles Agyemang Department of Public Health, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr David N Adjei; dna{at}chs.edu.gh
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Adjei DN, Stronks K, Adu D, et al
Cross-sectional study of association between socioeconomic indicators and chronic kidney disease in rural–urban Ghana: the RODAM study
BMJ Open 2019;9:e022610. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022610

Publication history

  • Received March 1, 2018
  • Revised February 15, 2019
  • Accepted April 4, 2019
  • First published May 24, 2019.
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February 20, 2022
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