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Chronic Kidney Disease
Nephrology · Urological
Severe
Severity
Common — affects a substantial proportion of adults in India, closely linked to the growing burden of diabetes and hypertension
Prevalence
No
Contagious
Nephrology
Specialist
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Most commonly caused by long-standing diabetes and hypertension
- 2both of which damage the small blood vessels within the kidneys' filtering units over time. Other causes include chronic glomerulonephritis
- 3polycystic kidney disease
- 4recurrent kidney infections
- 5prolonged use of certain medications that harm the kidneys
- 6and long-standing urinary tract obstruction. Family history
- 7obesity
- 8and smoking further increase the risk of developing or worsening chronic kidney disease.
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