Chronic kidney disease

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Medical scientists have brought up reports showing that chronic kidney disease affects between 6% and 7% of the global population annually. Chronic kidney disease is mostly linked with ageing -the older one gets, the more likely he/she is to have some degree of kidney disease. Statistics from the National Health Service have recorded one in five men and one in four women between the ages of 65 and 74 has some degree of chronic kidney disease. It is crucial to note that chronic kidney disease is mostly popular among the inhabitants of South Asia - India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Pakistan and the black people. Nonetheless, medical reports from Africa have registered that there are actually 32 million of young people who are strongly exposed to chronic kidney disease. What is chronic kidney disease? According to health professionals, chronic kidney diseaseis a progressive loss in kidney function over a period of months and years. The main causes of this disease are hypertension, diabetes and glomerulonephritis...