Understanding Chronic Kidney Disease
Plain answers for the day everything changes
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Martin Ingram
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Summary
Your eGFR is 52. Nobody explained what that means.
Chronic kidney disease usually arrives as a line on a blood test rather than a symptom: a number, a stage, and a follow-up in three months. In the gap, the internet supplies dialysis statistics and recipe books. This book supplies the explanation instead.
Written in plain, unhurried English, it sets out what the tests actually measure, what the stages really signify, what genuinely slows progression, and why most people at stage 3 stay there.
Inside:• What eGFR and ACR measure, and why the second matters more
How to read your own results, line by line
The stages, the risk grid, and where you sit on it
Blood pressure: the one lever that changes the outcome
The medicines, including SGLT2 inhibitors
What to eat, and the renal diet most people do not need
Sick day rules, and the mistake that costs kidney functionPart of The Clear Diagnosis Series from Meridian Publishers.
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