Chronic Kidney Disease in Primary Care: Essential Basics Review
Primary care plays an essential role in identifying CKD, monitoring and slowing disease progression, and providing timely referral, when indicated, to nephrology.
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is estimated to affect more than 10% of the general population, a proportion that eclipses the availability of nephrologists to manage the condition and its consequences. Primary care clinicians often are the first to suspect or identify CKD and can play an essential role in preventing or slowing disease progression, by initiating treatment and also providing timely referral, when indicated, to nephrology. The short slide show above offers an at-a-glance review of some basics.
FDA Proposed Rule Would Limit Nicotine Content in Cigarettes, Cigars, Other Combusted Products
January 16th 2025The agency estimates that limiting nicotine levels could lead to 1.8 million fewer tobacco-related deaths by 2060 and health care savings of $1.1 trillion a year over the next 40 years.
