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What is chronic kidney disease?

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) includes conditions that damage your kidneys and decrease their ability to keep you healthy by filtering wastes from your blood.

If kidney disease worsens, wastes can build to high levels in your blood and make you feel sick. You may develop complications like:

high blood pressure anemia (low blood count) weak bones poor nutritional health nerve damage Kidney disease also increases your risk of having heart and blood vessel disease.

Editor's Comment
BPF should get house in order

Speaker of the National Assembly, Dithapelo Keorapetse, has this week rightly washed his hands of the mess, refusing to wade into a party squabble that has no clear leadership and no single version of the truth.When a single party sends six different letters to the Speaker’s office, each claiming to be the authoritative voice, it is not just confusion, but an embarrassment.Keorapetse is correct to insist on institutional boundaries. Parliament...

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