Abstract
This paper is dedicated to National Kidney Month and touches on several areas about and related to kidney disease. A brief overview of kidney failure includes what the kidneys do, why they fail, how they fail, signs & symptoms, and treatment, is given in the first section of the report. The paper then discusses the functional limitations and rehabilitation implications associated with Chronic Kidney Disease. Current issues such as the donor waiting list, Medicare, analgesic medicines and kidney failure, and government involvement are also discussed. Four websites are discussed briefly in hopes to guide readers to excellent information sources about kidney disease and the 1 in 9 Americans with the disease.
More than 20 million Americans have undetected moderate chronic kidney disease, according to the National Kidney Foundation, and another 20 million more are at risk. The kidneys are twin organs used by the body to perform a variety of functions such as......
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