What Is Chronic Kidney Disease: Approach 1 - Why did you test me for kidney disease?

What Is Chronic Kidney Disease: Approach 1




>> A doctor speaks with a patient in his office.
>> What is CKD?
>> CKD means chronic kidney disease.
Chronic kidney disease means
that the kidneys are damaged.
The most common causes of chronic kidney
disease are diabetes and high blood pressure.
People who have diabetes and high blood
pressure have chronic kidney disease
because the small blood vessels in
the kidney are damaged in such a way
that the kidney can no longer
filter as well as it should.
The damage tends to occur very slowly
and most people have no symptoms.
They don't feel any way until the
kidney damage is very advanced.
If the kidney damage progresses over time, the
kidneys could be unable to maintain the health
of the individual with kidney disease.
>> Okay.

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Why did you test me for kidney disease?




>> A doctor speaks with a patient in her office.
>> You told me I have kidney
disease, but I feel fine.
>> Well, a lot of people
don't have any symptoms,
and we don't know that they have kidney disease
until we've done the blood and urine test.
So it was important that we did these tests on
you so that we could pick up the disease early
and we could start you on medications
to help slow the progression
of this disease before you have any symptoms.

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