It's National Kidney Month!
Chronic kidney disease affects nearly 37 MILLION people in the country (more than 1 in 7 adults).
Chronic kidney disease often causes no symptoms until it is more advanced.
Chronic kidney disease is progressive.
Chronic kidney disease puts people at risk for other serious health problems like heart attack, stroke and kidney failure.
One in three adults with diabetes (and one in five with hypertension) may have chronic kidney disease (CKD).
90% of people with it DO NOT KNOW THEY HAVE kidney disease!
Back to our title, "it takes two to make a thing go right": Two tests should be done to look for CKD. Fewer than half of patients at high risk for CKD are screened appropriately.
How to screen?
- Spot urine ACR (albumin-to-creatinine ratio)
AND
- eGFR (estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate)
Get started now to help make this thing go right!
References:
Nat'l Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Dr. Eugene Wright
