Womens Health Chronic Kidney Disease Common In The United States

There is a high prevalence of chronic kidney disease in the United States Womens Health, which has risen over the past decade, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Womens Health.

Chronic kidney disease increases the risk for complications from medications cleared by the kidney Womens Health, hypertension, anemia, bone disease, death from cardiovascular disease, Womens Health and ultimately kidney failure, which requires treatment with kidney transplantation or dialysis Womens Health.

Analyzing data from over 28,000 participants in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys Womens Health for 1988-1994 and 1999-2004, the research team measured the prevalence of chronic kidney disease stages 1-4. According to the results Womens Health, the number of people with chronic kidney disease stages 1 and 2, those with increased protein in the urine but unimpaired kidney filtration Womens Health,