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Chronic kidney disease
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Chronic kidney disease after 40
Chronic kidney disease may be an unfamiliar phrase when it first becomes part of someone's life. After 40, it can sit alongside established routines and responsibilities, with its significance feeling different from one person to another.
There can be a gap between how someone appears to others and how much space health occupies in their thoughts. This topic explores the everyday experience of living with chronic kidney disease, including privacy, relationships and the wish to be seen as a whole person rather than a condition.
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Chronic kidney disease articles
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Activated charcoal may help combat chronic kidney disease
Reviews research into activated charcoal and its possible effects on waste products in people with advanced kidney disease.
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Chronic kidney disease can be avoided in a surprisingly simple way
Examines research associating a produce-rich dietary pattern with a lower risk of developing chronic kidney disease.
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Chronic Kidney Disease: A Hidden Threat to Your Heart
Explains how declining kidney function may affect blood pressure, circulation, heart rhythm and cardiovascular risk.
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How Not to Die from Kidney Disease
What are the three significant dietary risk factors for declining kidney function?
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Lower Protein Diet Proven to Help Kidney Disease
How might we cut the risk of dialysis and death in half?
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Plant-Based Diet for Treating and Reversing Stage 3 Kidney Disease
A case demonstrating the potential power of plant-based eating for chronic kidney failure.
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The silent kidney health crisis spreading faster than experts expected
Reports global findings concerning the increasing prevalence of chronic kidney disease and its major modifiable risk factors.
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This Silent Health Crisis Is Now Affecting Nearly 800 Million People
Reviews the global prevalence of chronic kidney disease, its frequently silent early stages and associated metabolic risk factors.
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Treating Chronic Kidney Disease with Food
Plant-based diets have been shown to slow or stop the progression of kidney failure, but what about all the phosphorus and potassium in plant foods?
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Why Chronic Kidney Disease So Often Ends in Heart Problems
Examines research into biological mechanisms that may connect chronic kidney disease with heart damage and heart failure.
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Local Chronic kidney disease support
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West Riding Kidney Patients Association
Kidney-patient charity operating in Calderdale and neighbouring districts, providing support, advice, information and financial assistance to kidney patients and their families or carers.
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