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More than 50,000 Americans die each year because
of kidney disease.
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| 02. |
More than 260,000 suffer from chronic kidney failure
and need dialysis or kidney transplants to stay alive.
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| 03. |
More than 35,000 patients need kidney transplants,
but only 11,000 will receive transplants this year because of a lack
of suitable organ donors.
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| 04. |
Type II diabetes is the leading cause of chronic
kidney failure.
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| 05. |
Uncontrolled or poorly controlled high blood pressure
is the second leading cause. |
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