India, Nov. 8 -- A new study has shown that the total number of people suffering from chronic kidney disease in India in 2023 stood at 138 million, the second-highest number of cases in the world, just after China.

The number of adults living with CKD has more than doubled since 1990, reaching nearly 800 million worldwide, according to new research published in The Lancet.

The findings come from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2023 study, which tracked CKD trends among adults age 20 years and older across 204 countries and territories from 1990 through 2023.

The study was led by researchers at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, the New York University Grossman School of Medicine, ...