What you can do

Act early. Eat a balanced diet. Exercise.

Racial, ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in care and health outcomes exist for patients with CKD and CKD risk factors. Racial and ethnic minorities are more likely to progress from CKD to ESKD and yet are less likely to receive a kidney transplant or to have been under the care of a nephrologist before starting dialysis. These disparities are related to patient, clinician, clinical and system factors.

Low awareness and often silent progression of the disease

Understand with medicines may further cause kidney damage. For example, simple medications over the counter can further cause kidney damage. Ibuprofen, for example, should not be taken when in the stages of kidney failure.

Race is a social construct not a biological determinant of health and disease.

Concern that the race- in of eGFR contributes to the marked racial disparities in kidney disease diagnosis and treatment.