Welcome to the NKF Serving Southeast Texas

The Kidney Kitchen Is Here!

Most people with kidney disease must follow a special diet, and understanding how nutrition can affect your health is critical. This is why the NKF is pleased to introduce the Kidney Kitchen.

Kidney patients often need to modify their intake of certain nutrients such as protein, potassium, sodium, phosphorous and fluid. But that doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice good taste. Check out our delicious, “kidney friendly” recipes and sample meal plan. You’ll find a variety of flavorful recipes sure to satisfy your taste buds. So get out that apron and start cooking good tasting meals that are good for you!!!

Patients with Kidney Failure Living Longer

Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) are surviving longer, and fewer will succumb during their first year on dialysis than in the past, according to the 20th annual report of the U.S. Renal Data System.

First year mortality rates have fallen by almost 30% in peritoneal dialysis patients, 5% in the hemodialysis population, and 16% for transplant recipients since 1998. Evidence suggests that better treatment of cardiovascular disease and fewer serious infections account in large part for the superior outcomes.