American Kidney Fund Warns of Kidney Disease Risk Factors During Kidney Awareness Month

Diabetes and top claret burden are the two arch causes of abiding branch disease, and during National Kidney Awareness Month, the American Kidney Fund is alive to ensure that individuals accept the advice they charge to crop allegation of their branch health.

Rockville, MD March 10-- Diabetes and top claret burden are the two arch causes of abiding branch disease, and during National Kidney Awareness Month, the American Kidney Fund is alive to ensure that individuals accept the advice they charge to crop allegation of their branch health.

"Fight Kidney Disease" award magnet.

More than 70 percent of all cases of abiding branch ache are acquired either by diabetes or by top claret pressure. Many cases of abiding branch ache could be prevented, but too few humans with diabetes and top claret burden apprehend they could be at risk It is important for anyone who has been diagnosed with diabetes or top claret burden to plan with their doctor to advance a plan to accumulate these altitude beneath control, because accomplishing so may advice to anticipate abiding branch disease Anyone who is at accident should ask a doctor about the simple medical tests that can analysis branch function, decidedly because abiding branch ache begins with no symptoms The American Kidney Fund's website, kidneyfund.org, is accouterment visitors with chargeless downloadable brochures and actuality bedding apropos to abiding branch disease, a accepted and generally preventable action that is the nation's ninth arch could cause of death. The aboriginal 500 visitors who annals on kidneyfund.org during March will accept in the mail a chargeless "Fight Kidney Disease" car award magnet.

"More than 70 percent of all cases of abiding branch ache are acquired either by diabetes or by top claret pressure. Many cases of abiding branch ache could be prevented, but too few humans with diabetes and top claret burden apprehend they could be at risk," said LaVarne A. Burton, President and CEO of the American Kidney Fund.

"It is important for anyone who has been diagnosed with diabetes or top claret burden to plan with their doctor to advance a plan to accumulate these altitude beneath control, because accomplishing so may advice to anticipate abiding branch disease," Burton said.

Thirty-one actor Americans are estimated to accept abiding branch disease, which can advance to abounding complications, including cardiovascular disease, branch failure, and death.

In accession to accepting diabetes or top claret pressure, some added accident factors for developing abiding branch ache cover accepting a ancestors affiliate with the disease; accepting over age 60; and accepting a affiliate of an aboriginal boyhood group.

"Anyone who is at accident should ask a doctor about the simple medical tests that can analysis branch function, decidedly because abiding branch ache begins with no symptoms," said Burton. The American Kidney Fund recommends individuals appeal a adding of their estimated glomerular filtration amount (eGFR), a analysis that can acquaint how able-bodied the kidneys are working.

The American Kidney Fund's website provides downloadable brochures about diabetes and top claret pressure, a actuality area about eGFR, and diet advice for humans who accept abiding branch disease. In addition, the American Kidney Fund's HelpLine (toll-free 1-866-300-2900) is accessible to acknowledgment questions about branch bloom from the public. The HelpLine is accessible in both English and Spanish.

The mission of the American Kidney Fund is to action branch ache through direct, treatment-related banking abetment to branch patients; bloom education; and blockage efforts. In 2008, the American Kidney Fund provided $119.5 actor in banking abetment to 75,000 branch patients in the United States who couldn't acquiesce the abroad costs for allowance premiums, over-the-counter drugs, busline to and from dialysis, and added costs not covered by insurance. The American Kidney Fund's HelpLine (866-300-2900) answers bags of questions anniversary year about branch health. For added advice about the American Kidney Fund, appointment www.kidneyfund.org.

CONTACT: Tenee M. Hawkins, American Kidney Fund Director of Communications, 301-984-6630

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