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UK Renal Registry 15th Annual Report: Appendix C Renal Services Described for Non-Physicians
Author(s) -
Manish D. Sinha,
Carol Inward,
Yincent Tse,
Heather Maxwell,
Malcolm Lewis,
Fiona Braddon,
Anna Casula,
Catherine O'Brien,
Rishi Pruthi,
Terry Feest,
Catriona Shaw,
Retha Steenkamp,
Anirudh Rao,
Julie Gilg,
Andrew J Williams,
Victoria Briggs,
David Pitcher,
Damian Fogarty,
Martin Wilkie,
Iain MacPhee,
Udaya Udayaraj,
Laura Pankhurst,
Paul Roderick,
John O'Neill,
Rommel Ravanan,
Satz Mengensatzproduktion,
Druck Reinhardt Druck Basel
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
nephron clinical practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1660-2110
DOI - 10.1159/000353331
Subject(s) - medicine , family medicine , intensive care medicine
1.2 Around 13,000 people die from kidney (renal) disease in the UK each year, although this is an underestimation as many deaths of patients with renal failure are not recorded as such in mortality statistics. Kidney diseases can occur suddenly (‘acute’) or over months and years (‘chronic’). Chronic kidney disease is relatively common, with the majority of patients being elderly and having mild impairment of their renal function.

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