CKD is misunderstood

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 07 Jul 2010 English Publisher:BMJJournal:BMJ, volume 341, pages c3574-c3574 (issn: 0959-8138, eissn: 1468-5833,

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Authors: Dominic, de Takats;

doi: 10.1136/bmj.c3574

pmid: 20610499

CKD is misunderstood

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Abstract

The concept of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is bad medicine only because we have made it so.1 The concepts of reduced renal excretory function and CKD have been conflated so people who do not have CKD—such as patients who have had a nephrectomy for reasons not related to the function of …

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University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
United Kingdom
Royal Stoke University Hospital
United Kingdom

Keywords

Humans, Kidney Failure, Chronic

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