Health
‘Silent condition’: one in 10 adults at risk but may not know it – Sydney Morning Herald
In 2019, Shane Jeeves was shocked to learn he had just 6 per cent kidney function and had to go on dialysis to stay alive.
Mr Jeeves is not a rare case. In 2018, there were 3100 new cases of end-stage kidney disease according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
But even more people have signs of the condition: in a July 2020 report, the AIHW estimated one in 10 adults or 1.7 million people in 2011 and 2012 had biomedical signs of chronic kidney disease.
While the majority of those people (97 per cent) showed signs of being in the earlier stages of the disease, according to the report it “remains a h…
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