Chronic kidney disease is now among the top 10 leading causes of global death, according to new research published in the journal The Lancet (h/t FOX News ).

Chronic kidney disease is now the ninth leading cause of death worldwide with record numbers of men and women reportedly suffering from reduced kidney function. Researchers at NYU Langone Health, the University of Glasgow, and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington analyzed 2,230 published papers and health datasets from 133 countries, as well as diagnoses, mortality and the death toll for chronic kidney disease, which showed that cases increased from 378 million in 1990 to 788 million in 2023.

The increased data landed chronic kidney disease among the top 10 leading causes of d

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