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Table 2. The potassium contents ranges of single preparations with different officinal partsConclusions: All of the tested PCMs contain potassium and 42% of them had potassium content >10 mg$g -1 (or mg$mL -1 ). Lots of PCMs would provide a very high potassium load for CKD patients, which leads to an urgent problem in CKD management. We should be aware that many CKD patients also took additional Chinese herbs while using PCM.

Incidence and prevalence of ESRD population for some of nations are regularly well published. Oman's publication on this aspect is limited and therefore this study is made to contributing in publishing this vital data. Methods: This study is a secondary data analysis for the data obtained from the ESRD register in Oman, and from the Oman annual health reports, and relevant accessible published resources. The main measurements and aim is to identify the incidence and prevalence of Oman's treated ESRD population (1983-2018). The year 1983 is the year when renal care has started in Oman. Results: The total number of patients registered on the Oman's ESRD register of the cental renal dialysis centre (RDC) from 1983 until 2010 was 3,524 ESRD patients distributed for the following treatments' cohorts; haemodialysis, 2,328 patients (66%); kidney transplant, 1,144 patients (32.5%); peritoneal dialysis, 52 patients (1.5%). The prevalence statistics from 1998-2018 showed an overall increase in dialysis treatment in Oman. The dialysis sub/population increased from 35 patients in 1983 to 2,300 patients in 2018. The new patients registered in 1983 were 34 patients, in 1986 were 33, in 2013 were 168, in 2015 were 230, and in 2018 were 350 patients per total population. Conclusions: The overall results for the incidence and prevalence of Oman's ESRD population showed increase in these figures which agree with the global scenario and ring an alarm to undertake an urgent preventive measure to stop the wild increase of this chronic disease incidence.