Are You Kidney(ing) Me: My Personal Experience with Kidney Disease

Approximately 10 percent of the world population and 15 percent of the US adult population are affected by chronic kidney disease. Nine out of ten people with kidney disease are unaware they have it, and half of those with severely reduced kidney function but not yet on dialysis do not know they have kidney disease.

Kidney disease is the fastest-growing noncommunicable disease in the US, usually with no signs or symptoms until the late stages and kills more people each year than breast or pr...