WORLD KIDNEY DAY- MESSAGE

Kasi -Vishweswaran

    Nephrologists have called for strengthening preventive strategies to reduce the incidence of chronic Kidney diseases in the community.
   On the occasion of world Kidney Day, the message going out to the public should be to maintain a healthy lifestyle because more than 60 percent of the renal diseases were life style-related, Nephrologist  Kasi -Vishweswaran said on Thursday 10th March,2011.
   The high prevalence of diabetes and hypertension in the community is directly linked to the increasing incidence of chronic Kidney diseases. Chronic Kidney disease is a silent Killer because the disease advances in a symptomless manner. Symptoms of renal failure manifested externally only when the functioning of the Kidney had gone down by about 85 percent, when the patient had reached the end stage renal disease and when the only answer for survival was a Kidney transplant. Renal diseases could result in much morbidity and loss of quality of life. As the Kidney function deteriorates, the patient had to be kept alive on continuous haemodialysis be on prevention and early detection through simple, routine blood and urine tests.

Prof. John Kurakar