Kidney Disease
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Kidney Disease Incidence
Facts about kidney disease:
About 10 percent of adults in the US have some form of kidney disease.
About 500,000 people in the US are on dialysis for
kidney failure
.
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Kidney Disease Risk Factors
Related Topics:
Acute glomerulonephritis
Acute interstitial nephritis
Diabetic nephropathy
Kidney stone
Nephrotic syndrome
Polycystic kidney disease
Pyelonephritis
Reflux nephropathy
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Renal cell carcinoma
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Last Updated: May 22, 2008
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Bailie GR, Uhlig K, Levey AS. Clinical practice guidelines in nephrology: evaluation, classification, and stratification of chronic kidney disease. Pharmacotherapy. 2005 Apr;25(4):491-502.
Boydstun II. Chronic kidney disease in adolescents. Adolesc Med Clin. 2005 Feb;16(1):185-99, xii.
Snively CS, Gutierrez C. Chronic kidney disease: prevention and treatment of common complications. Am Fam Physician. 2004 Nov 15;70(10):1921-8.
Toto RD. Management of hypertensive chronic kidney disease: role of calcium channel blockers. J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich). 2005 Apr;7(4 Suppl 1):15-20.
