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What Is Kidney Disease?Learn more about the types, symptoms, and risk factors

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Kidney disease fact
Fact:
About half of all people aged 75 or more have chronic kidney disease.12
Kidney disease fact
Kidney disease fact
Kidney disease fact
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Kidney disease refers to any disease, disorder, or condition that affects the kidneys. While requirements and guidelines vary, imaging, laboratory diagnostics, and point‐of‐care testing are integral in screening, diagnosing, and/or monitoring most kidney conditions.

Siemens Healthineers offers solutions for healthcare providers, from primary‐care physicians and internists to nephrologists, oncologists, and radiologists, to improve the patient experience over a lifetime of the kidney healthcare continuum.

1. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ‐ National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease: https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health‐information/kidneydisease

2. https://www.usrds.org/2014/view/v1_05.aspx

3. Johns Hopkins Medicine: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/healthlibrary/conditions/kidney_and_urinary_system_disorders/end_stage_renal_disease_esrd_85,P01474/

4. Chronic Kidney Disease: www.diseaseinfosearch.org/result/3996

5. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – Centers of Disease Control and Prevention: http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/pubs/pdf/kidney_factsheet.pdf

6. National Health Services UK: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/kidney‐disease/symptoms/

7. Recreated from: http://guidelines.diabetes.ca/App_Themes/CDACPG/images/Ch29_Tbl4_Stages_of_CKD.jpg

8. https://www.ukaachen.de/fileadmin/files/global/user_upload/Autosomal_dominante_polyzystische_Nierenerkrankung.pdf

9. https://www.orpha.net/data/patho/GB/uk‐CNF.pdf

10. https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/alport‐syndrome#synonyms

11. https://ercpa.eu/index.php/2017/03/09/discover‐our‐new‐infographic‐on‐ckd/

12. http://www.thelancet.com/campaigns/kidney/

13. National Kidney Foundation (U.S.) Republished with permission.: https://www.kidney.org/atoz/content/about‐chronic‐kidney‐disease

14. https://www.klinikum.uni‐heidelberg.de/Nierenerkrankungen.119146.0.html

This material does not constitute medical advice. It is intended for informational purposes only. Please consult a physician for specific treatment recommendations.