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Chronic Kidney Disease in Primary Care: Essential Basics Review
Primary care plays an essential role in identifying CKD, monitoring and slowing disease progression, and providing timely referral, when indicated, to nephrology.
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is estimated to affect more than 10% of the general population, a proportion that eclipses the availability of nephrologists to manage the condition and its consequences. Primary care clinicians often are the first to suspect or identify CKD and can play an essential role in preventing or slowing disease progression, by initiating treatment and also providing timely referral, when indicated, to nephrology. The short slide show above offers an at-a-glance review of some basics.
The System Isn’t Working for Americans with Kidney Disease
Published: September 5th 2024 | Updated: September 5th 2024Today, nearly 37 million Americans have chronic kidney disease (CKD), yet only about one percent of those Americans are even aware of their disease. And access to care is under threat.
