The National Kidney Foundation Launches the First-Ever National Registry for All Stages of Kidney Disease
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Thursday, February 25, 2021
NEW YORK, Feb. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Today the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) launched the first-ever national registry for patients at all stages of kidney disease, the NKF Patient Network .
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- NEW YORK, Feb. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Today the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) launched the first-ever national registry for patients at all stages of kidney disease, the NKF Patient Network .
- "The data collected goes beyond numbers on a spreadsheetwe want to hear about a patient's experience living with kidney disease.
- This national launch is a great step forward in considering the diversity of the population with kidney disease.
- In the United States, 37 million adults are estimated to have kidney disease, also called chronic kidney disease (CKD), and approximately 90 percent don't know they have it.