18- Diabetic Kidney Disease-You Probably Don't Know you Have It!
Only 10% of These People Even Know They Have the Condition
As we said in the last post, only ten percent of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) know they have it. That is a major failure of our healthcare system, related to a broader failure to redesign it to more appropriately deal with chronic diseases. If individuals don’t even know they have CKD, there is no way they can be receiving optimal medical …