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Understanding your lab work
People with chronic kidney disease or renal failure undergo a series of tests to determine their health status to monitor if they are at end stage renal disease and in need of dialysis.
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Skilled Nursing Facilities
Nursing home and other skilled nursing facility (SNF) residents may be able to receive onsite dialysis rather than traveling to a center for treatment.
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Advice
Lifestyle Lifestyle Changes: 6 Tips for Adopting a Kidney Diet When you’ve been diagnosed with kidney disease or told that you need dialysis, you face making considerable changes to your everyday life, including starting a kidney diet. Here are six tips to help make a kidney diet fit into your life. 1. Talk to a […]
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Emergency
When you need emergency support, a dialysis placement or help setting up treatments, look no further than DaVita Guest Services. Learn more today.
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Integrated Kidney Care
Do More of What You Enjoy. DaVita Integrated Kidney Care provides patients with support from a team of integrated care nurses, physicians and more.
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Risk Factors
Risk Factors About 30 million adults in the U.S. have kidney disease (also called renal disease) and many don’t know it. Do you know the causes of kidney disease and if you’re at risk? Take the Kidney Disease Risk Quiz and get answers. So, what exactly are the main causes of kidney disease? There are […]
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Lifestyle Changes
Lifestyle Changes with Kidney Disease 15 Tips for a Good Life When You Have Kidney Disease Your life may start to look different when you have chronic kidney disease (CKD), but you can still enjoy it. Taking things one step at a time may help. Below are 15 tips to help you enjoy a good […]
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Basics
Basics A chronic kidney disease (CKD) diagnosis may come as a surprise to many people, because the symptoms are often times subtle. The signs of kidney disease are: In many cases, kidney damage is the result of another illness that has progressed slowly over the years. The two main causes are diabetes and high blood […]
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Additional Resources
A wealth of resources are available to help you on your quest to learn more about chronic kidney disease (CKD) and dialysis.
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Stages
Stages of Chronic Kidney Disease About chronic kidney disease (CKD) With chronic kidney disease, the kidneys don’t usually fail all at once. Instead, kidney disease often progresses slowly years. If caught early, medicines and lifestyle changes may help slow or prevent CKD progression. Five stages of chronic kidney disease The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) divided […]