Diabetic nephropathy in Africa: A systematic review

Table 1 Search history PubMed

Search	Search terms	Hits
1	Diabetes[tw] OR Diabetes mellitus[tw] OR Type 1 diabetes[tw] OR Type 1 diabetes mellitus[tw] OR T1DM[tw] OR Type 2 diabetes[tw] OR Type 2 diabetes mellitus[tw] OR T2DM[tw] OR Hyperglycemia[tw] OR Glucose intolerance[tw]	445204
2	Renal insufficiency[tw] OR Renal failure[tw] OR Renal injury[tw] OR Renal disease[tw] Kidney insufficiency[tw] OR Kidney failure[tw] OR Kidney injury[tw] OR Kidney disease[tw] OR End-stage renal disease[tw] OR End-stage renal failure[tw] OR End-stage kidney disease[tw] OR End-stage kidney failure [tw] OR End stage renal disease[tw] OR End stage renal failure[tw] OR End stage kidney disease[tw] OR End stage kidney failure [tw] OR Microalbuminuria [tw] OR Micro-albuminuria OR Macroalbuminuria [tw] or Macro-albuminuria [tw]	154354
3	# 1 AND # 2	20388
4	Diabetic nephropathy [MeSH Terms]	19406
5	# 3 OR # 4	34221
6	((((("Africa"[MeSH] OR Africa*[tw] OR Algeria[tw] OR Angola[tw] OR Benin[tw] OR Botswana[tw] OR "Burkina Faso"[tw] OR Burundi[tw] OR Cameroon[tw] OR "Canary Islands"[tw] OR "Cape Verde"[tw] OR "Central African Republic"[tw] OR Chad[tw] OR Comoros[tw] OR Congo[tw] OR "Democratic Republic of Congo"[tw] OR Djibouti[tw] OR Egypt[tw] OR "Equatorial Guinea"[tw] OR Eritrea[tw] OR Ethiopia[tw] OR Gabon[tw] OR Gambia[tw] OR Ghana[tw] OR Guinea[tw] OR "Guinea Bissau"[tw] OR "Ivory Coast"[tw] OR "Cote d'Ivoire"[tw] OR Jamahiriya[tw] OR Jamahiryia[tw] OR Kenya[tw] OR Lesotho[tw] OR Liberia[tw] OR Libya[tw] OR Libia[tw] OR Madagascar[tw] OR Malawi[tw] OR Mali[tw] OR Mauritania[tw] OR Mauritius[tw] OR Mayote[tw] OR Morocco[tw] OR Mozambique[tw] OR Mocambique[tw] OR Namibia[tw] OR Niger[tw] OR Nigeria[tw] OR Principe[tw] OR Reunion[tw] OR Rwanda[tw] OR "Sao Tome"[tw] OR Senegal[tw] OR Seychelles[tw] OR "Sierra Leone"[tw] OR Somalia[tw] OR "South Africa"[tw] OR "St Helena"[tw] OR Sudan[tw] OR Swaziland[tw] OR Tanzania[tw] OR Togo[tw] OR Tunisia[tw] OR Uganda[tw] OR "Western Sahara"[tw] OR Zaire[tw] OR Zambia[tw] OR Zimbabwe[tw] OR "Central Africa"[tw] OR "Central African"[tw] OR "West Africa"[tw] OR "West African"[tw] OR "Western Africa"[tw] OR "Western African"[tw] OR "East Africa"[tw] OR "East African"[tw] OR "Eastern Africa"[tw] OR "Eastern African"[tw] OR "North Africa"[tw] OR "North African"[tw] OR "Northern Africa"[tw] OR "Northern African"[tw] OR "South African"[tw] OR "Southern Africa"[tw] OR "Southern African"[tw] OR "sub Saharan Africa"[tw] OR "sub Saharan African"[tw] OR "subSaharan Africa"[tw] OR "subSaharan African"[tw]) NOT ("guinea pig"[tw] OR "guinea pigs"[tw] OR "aspergillus niger"[tw])))))	354928
7	# 5 AND # 6	1065
8	#4 Limits: 1994/01/01 to 2014/10/22 and studies done in Humans	918