Kidney Disease Awareness

Kidney disease means your kidneys are damaged and can’t filter blood the way they should. The effects of kidney disease can be serious , even life threatening. When left untreated or uncontrolled they can eventually lead to complete kidney failure – when the kidneys stop working completely- requiring dialysis or a kidney transplant to maintain life.

By age fifty-five nearly everyone has at least some signs on early chronic kidney disease stage one or less known as “Kidney Early Damage” The only known cure for most cases of CKD is through 10% kidney function – transplant or early end of life for a person with impaired renal function versus conventional medical therapies to delay progression to end-stage renal disease.

Mortality rates are still high at over fifty percent in the first five years of diagnosis making prevention key in most circumstances despite concerted efforts to reduce mortality with novel medications but little progress in reducing year incidence is noted in recent years in certain countries suggesting adoption rates of renal preventative strategies may be limited by multiple factors including awareness.

You are at greater risk for kidney disease if you have diabetes or high blood pressure, visit thekidneydocs.com/ to learn all about it. The American Diabetes Association estimates that nearly one-third of diabetics will develop some form of kidney damage in their lifetimes. 40% of people with type-2 diabetes and almost everyone who has diabetic nephropathy have kidney stones, putting them at risk for recurring stones and other problems as they age or are otherwise prone to more complications (e.g. old age) from the kidneys that are not functioning properly because of micro-inflammation of the tissues that damages the nephrons themselves over time from the damage caused by the high glucose. It is estimated that over one quarter of all hospitalized patients suffer a urinary tract infection of some kind due to the effects of chronic kidney disease and diabetes on the integrity of the lining of the bladder.

May 16th, 2016 | Posted in General