ESRD Stats in Focus:Prevalence, Annual Number of Kidney Transplants, Costs Per Patient, and Patient Survival Rates

ESRD Prevalence and Prevalent Rate

• At the end of 2009, more than 871,000 people were being treated for ESRD.
• Between 1980 and 2009, the prevalent rate for ESRD increased nearly 600 percent, from 290 to 1,738 cases per million.

Kidney Transplantation

After rising steadily from 1980 to 2006, the annual number of kidney transplants declined in 2007 and 2008.

Costs per Patient

• ESRD annual expenditures per patient have increased slightly in recent years.
• From 2006 to 2007, transplant costs per patient decreased but increased again in 2008.
• Yearly costs for treating a patient on HD are nearly triple the costs for treating a transplant patient.

Patient Survival Rates for Dialysis and Transplant Patients

At 85.5 percent, the 5-year survival rate for transplant patients is more than twice the 35.8 percent survival rate for dialysis patients.











Special thanks to the

National Kidney and Urologic Diseases
Information Clearinghouse (NKUDIC)

and the

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

 for the graphs which were taken from

http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/kustats/

 on 8/16/12.