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Article: U.S. initiative aims to reduce kidney failure among African Americans.
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- Diabetes Week
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- July 5, 2004
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2004 JUL 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The National Kidney Disease Education Program (NKDEP) has begun its first national effort to call attention to the seriousness of kidney disease and the importance of testing those at high risk, particularly African Americans, a group hit especially hard.
Kidney disease has no warning signs in its early stages and many of those at high risk do not know it. But its impact is clear. Twenty million people have kidney disease. The number of people already on dialysis or with a kidney transplant because their kidneys failed has doubled each decade for the past 2 decades. Nearly half a million people now have kidney failure - a ...