Rashidi, Mohammad MahdiMoghaddam, Sahar SaeediAzadnajafabad, SinaMohammadi, EsmaeilKhalaji, AmirmohammadMalekpour, Mohammad RezaKeykhaei, MohammadRezaei, NegarEsfahani, ZahraRezaei, NazilaMokdad, Ali H.Murray, Christopher J.L.Naghavi, MohsenLarijani, BagherFarzadfar, FarshadAbbasi-Kangevari, MohsenAbbasi-Kangevari, ZeinabElHafeez, Samar AbdAbd-Elsalam, SheriefAbdoun, MeriemAbu-Gharbieh, EmanAhmad, AqeelAhmed, AymanAl-Azzam, SayerAl-Raddadi, Rajaa M.AlTammemi, Ala'a B.Dehkordi, Javad AminianBehghadami, Mehrdad AmirArabloo, JalalAthar, MohammadAthari, Seyyed ShamsadinBabaei, MahsaBabamohamadi, HassanBaghcheghi, NayerehBagherieh, SaraBaradaran, Hamid RezaBhagavathula, Akshaya SrikanthBhojaraja, Vijayalakshmi S.Hashemi, Milad BonakdarCampos, Luciana AparecidaDehghan, AzizallahElhadi, MuhammedEl-Huneidi, WaseemFatehizadeh, AliFeizkhah, AlirezaGhadirian, FatanehGholami, AliHamidi, SamerHassankhani, HadiHeidari-Foroozan, MahsaGBD 2019 NAME Kidney Dysfunction Risk Factor Collaborators2024-04-122024-04-122024-01-29Rashidi, M M, Moghaddam, S S, Azadnajafabad, S, Mohammadi, E, Khalaji, A, Malekpour, M R, Keykhaei, M, Rezaei, N, Esfahani, Z, Rezaei, N, Mokdad, A H, Murray, C J L, Naghavi, M, Larijani, B, Farzadfar, F, Abbasi-Kangevari, M, Abbasi-Kangevari, Z, ElHafeez, S A, Abd-Elsalam, S, Abdoun, M, Abu-Gharbieh, E, Ahmad, A, Ahmed, A, Al-Azzam, S, Al-Raddadi, R M, AlTammemi, A B, Dehkordi, J A, Behghadami, M A, Arabloo, J, Athar, M, Athari, S S, Babaei, M, Babamohamadi, H, Baghcheghi, N, Bagherieh, S, Baradaran, H R, Bhagavathula, A S, Bhojaraja, V S, Hashemi, M B, Campos, L A, Dehghan, A, Elhadi, M, El-Huneidi, W, Fatehizadeh, A, Feizkhah, A, Ghadirian, F, Gholami, A, Hamidi, S, Hassankhani, H, Heidari-Foroozan, M & GBD 2019 NAME Kidney Dysfunction Risk Factor Collaborators 2024, 'Mortality and disability-adjusted life years in North Africa and Middle East attributed to kidney dysfunction : a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019', Clinical Kidney Journal, vol. 17, no. 1, sfad279, pp. 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1093/ckj/sfad2792048-8505ORCID: /0000-0002-5070-5864/work/157656651https://hdl.handle.net/2164/23230The authors would like to thank the hard work of the staff of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) for providing the best possible epidemiologic estimation of diseases in almost all regions and countries of the world, trying to reduce and eliminate poverty of knowledge and information about the diseases globally. Also, the core team authors sincerely thank all the collaborators of the GBD 2019 study who contributed to this study by providing data or a precise review of the manuscript. Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the ERA. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.132114042engSDG 3 - Good Health and Well-beingcardiovascular diseaseschronic kidney diseaseglobal burden of diseasekidney dysfunctionmortalityR MedicineNephrologyTransplantationRJournal article10.1093/ckj/sfad279http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85184021750&partnerID=8YFLogxK171