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What are complications of chronic kidney disease?
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What are complications of chronic kidney disease?

Dr Emma Salisbury highlights some of the common complications of chronic kidney disease.

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What are some complications of chronic kidney disease? So chronic kidney disease is is recognized to be a cardiovascular risk factor in its own right, by which I mean many people will know that having high blood pressure, smoking, being diabetic, these risk factors put you at an increased risk of developing heart heart disease, angina, having a heart attack or a stroke. We also know that obviously people with chronic kidney disease often have those things, they have those risk factors, but apart from that, also just having chronic kidney disease puts you at an increased risk of developing heart disease. In addition, advanced chronic kidney disease can cause bone disease put you at increased risk of fractures. It can cause all the problems that we've discussed such as swelling, fluid retention. I think the main complication of chronic kidney disease is that it would progress to end-stage kidney failure and the need for renal replacement therapy.

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