What are common causes of chronic kidney disease?

And what causes chronic kidney disease? The most common causes of chronic kidney disease in the Western world is hypertension, by which I mean high blood pressure, or diabetes. Having said that, anything can cause chronic kidney damage such as genetic conditions, polycystic kidney disease is the most common genetic condition causing chronic kidney impairment, congenital conditions, by which I mean a condition that you're born with, so such as some people might be born with structural abnormalities to the kidney which predispose to them developing chronic kidney impairment over their lifetime. Kidney stones, recurrent urine infections, or a rarer condition causing inflammation the kiddies that she's termed glomerulonephritis.