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Few Americans aware they have chronic kidney disease

strives to increase awareness about kidney disease and offers the GFR calculator and other free tools at www.nkdep.nih.gov.

"Chronic Kidney Disease Awareness, Prevalence and Trends among U.S. Adults, 1999 to 2000" was written by Josef Coresh, Danita Byrd-Holt, Brad C. Astor, Josephine P. Briggs, Paul W. Eggers, David A. Lacher and Thomas H. Hostetter and appears in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

Funding for the study was provided by the National Center for Research Resources and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, and by the American Heart Association Established Investigators Award.


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Contact: Tim Parsons
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Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
16-Dec-2004


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