Figure 1.

The selected study locations representing CKDu endemic (En), emerging (Em) and non-endemic (NE) regions, with respect to Burden of CKDu and climatic zones in Sri Lanka. The prevalence of CKDu is expressed as the number of CKD/CKDu cases at Divisional Secretariat levels, based on hospital records as per the analysis of Ranasinghe et al.10. The map was created using QGIS 3.22.4 (https://www.qgis.org/en/site/) and Adobe Photoshop (https://www.adobe.com/sg/products/photoshop.html).