🔴 Why Are the Kidneys So Important?
Maintaining kidney health is important to your overall health and general well-being.
The kidneys remove waste products from the body, maintain balanced electrolyte levels, and regulate blood pressure.
If you have chronic kidney disease, it is crucial to track food and fluid intake because diseased kidneys can't remove waste products from the body like healthy kidneys can.
🔴 What can cause damage to your kidneys?
Kidneys can become damaged from a physical injury or a disease like diabetes, high blood pressure, or other disorders.
High blood pressure and diabetes are the two most common causes of kidney failure.
🔴 About Chronic Kidney Disease.
Some other health consequences of CKD include:
● Anemia or low number of red blood cells
● Increased occurrence of infections
● Low calcium levels, high potassium levels, and high phosphorus levels in the blood
● Loss of appetite or eating less
● Depression or lower quality of life
🔴 CKD By the Numbers.
● Kidney diseases are the ninth leading cause of death in the United States.
● About 37 million US adults are estimated to have CKD and most are undiagnosed.
● 40% of people with severely reduced kidney function are not aware of having CKD.
● Every 24 hours, 350 people begin dialysis treatment for kidney failure.
● In the United States, diabetes and high blood pressure are the leading causes of kidney failure, representing about 3 out of 4 new cases.
● In 2018, treating Medicare beneficiaries with CKD cost over $81.8 billion, and treating people with ESRD cost an additional $36.6 billion.
🔴 Talk to your doctor about getting tested if you have any of these risk factors:
● Diabetes
● High blood pressure
● Heart disease
● Family history of CKD
● Obesity
🔴 SOURCES:
- Facebook group: 00kidney group
- 00Kidney on Facebook: health support for kidney dialysis
- Katherine on Instagram: 00kidney
- Youtube: 00kidney
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