Continuous care begins with understanding.
Chronic kidney disease, cardiovascular diseases and chronic respiratory diseases.
Behind every billion spent are lives that could have had a different outcome.
Explore prevalence, mortality and SUS spending figures for chronic kidney disease (CKD), cardiovascular diseases and chronic respiratory diseases — asthma and COPD.
Chronic kidney disease (CKD)
Prevalence and mortality
- 788 million
- people worldwide. Source
- 1.5 million
- deaths in 2023. Source
- 150,000+
- patients on dialysis in Brazil. Source
- 1 in 10
- Brazilians has CKD. Source
SUS spending
- R$ 3.3 billion
- spent on CKD in SUS in 2015. Source
- R$ 5.8 billion
- estimated total CKD spending in SUS in 2024.
Consolidated estimate based on public DATASUS data (SIH + SIA + SIGTAP) compiled by researchers.
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- CKD spending in SUS in 2033. Source
- R$ 33,000
- per patient per year for treatment. Source
Cardiovascular diseases
Prevalence and mortality
- 19 million+
- deaths per year worldwide. Source
- 400,000
- deaths per year in Brazil. Source
- 1,104
- deaths per day. Source
- 46
- deaths per hour. Source
SUS spending
- 553,000
- hospital admissions per year in SUS, on average. Source
- R$ 2.4 billion
- per year, estimated total cost between 2024 and 2029. Source
- R$ 4,300
- per hospital admission. Source
- R$ 49 billion
- expected cost to SUS over 5 years. Source
Chronic respiratory diseases — asthma and COPD
Prevalence and mortality
- 360 million+
- people living with asthma worldwide. Source
- 8 million+
- Brazilians living with asthma. Source
- 2,700+
- annual asthma deaths in Brazil between 2020 and 2024. Source
- 1+
- asthma death per day. Source
- 390 million+
- people living with COPD worldwide. Source
- 3 million+
- COPD deaths worldwide in 2021. Source
- 5 million+
- people affected by COPD in Brazil. Source
- 35,000
- COPD deaths per year. Source
- 4
- COPD deaths per hour. Source
SUS spending
- R$ 103 million
- approximately, spent by SUS on hospitalizations per year. Source
- 200,000
- hospitalizations per year associated with approximately R$ 103 million in spending. Source