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Nephrology - Dialysis department
Réseau Hospitalier de Médecine Sociale
Belgium
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Kidney diseases
 Usually without symtoms, the renal impairment is often found upon a routine blood test. In Western countries, the kidney diseases mainly result from diabetes mellitus or hypertension.  Screening tests for renal disease as well as for diabetes and hypertension are crucial.  Especially as different actions are able to slow down, even to stop, the progression of the renal insufficiency. By doing that,  the risk to reach the end-stage renal disease is significantly decrease, preventing to the patient a heavy and costly therapy such as dialysis or kidney transplantation.

Among renal disease patients, the hypertension is observed in 50 to 80% of cases, leading to a faster decline of renal function. Moreover, the hypertension combined to renal disorders absolutely increases the risk for death from cardiovascular causes.
400 to 600 million people living in the world suffer from kidney disease.  In Belgium, 250 to 500,000 patients have a kidney disorder among them 10,000 people reached the end-stage renal disease requiring renal replacement therapy (kidney transplantation, peritoneal dialysis or hemodialysis).