Study shows that dialysis patients often have close family members also on dialysis
1st Nov 2005, 18:30 GMT
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. Nearly one-fourth of all dialysis patients have a close relative on dialysis, researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, and others, report in the current online edition of the American Journal of Nephrology. The researchers suggest screening other relatives for undetected kidney disease. Barry I. Freedman, M.D., reports that many relatives in these families have silent kidney diseases that can be treated at early stages, leading to slowed progression or prevention of future dialysis treatments or kidney transplants.
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