Kidney Disease

What is Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)?

Chronic kidney disease includes conditions that damage your kidneys and decrease their ability to keep you healthy by doing the jobs listed. If kidney disease gets worse, wastes can build to high levels in your blood and make you feel sick. You may develop complications like high blood pressure, anemia (low blood count), weak bones, poor nutritional health and nerve damage. Also, kidney disease increases your risk of having heart and blood vessel disease. These problems may happen slowly over a long period of time. Chronic kidney disease may be caused by diabetes, high blood pressure and other disorders. Early detection and treatment can often keep chronic kidney disease from getting worse. When kidney disease progresses, it may eventually lead to kidney failure, which requires dialysis or a kidney transplant to maintain life. more information

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Two Simple Tests Protect Patients from Common Killer


Two simple blood and urine tests will detect chronic kidney disease (CKD) in millions of people who are in early stages of the disease but have no symptoms, when they may benefit most from treatment, according to a new position from the National Kidney Foundation, published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases.more information

The Facts About Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)

One in Nine Americans Has Chronic Kidney Disease

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Many People With Kidney Disease Still in the Dark

Nearly half of people with an advanced form of kidney disease do not know they have weak or failing kidneys, according to recent research published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases, the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation. more information

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Tells the compelling story of a group of patients and their health care team in a dialysis center just like hundreds of centers across the U.S. Hope Street follows these individuals through the ups and downs of crises, conflicts, discoveries, and, most importantly, triumphs. more information

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