Figure 3.
New onset end stage renal disease (ESRD) in persons with diabetes expressed as both incident number and incident rate of new onset ESRD per 100,000 persons with diabetes (United States Renal Data System (USRDS) data, 2006 (age adjusted)). A sharp decline in the incident rate starting in 1995 is evident. This observation was noted in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s Weekly Morbidity and Mortality Report in November, 2005. Inferred from this finding is the ongoing subsidence of the pandemic of ESRD in persons with diabetes.