Health Matters is a weekly radio show sponsored by the Medicine Center Pharmacy on WHBC 1480 AM in Canton, Ohio. This episode pharmacists Brad White and Paul White discuss understanding kidney dialysis with Pam Beller, RN with Aultman Dialysis.

Kidney disease, also known as chronic kidney disease, causes more deaths than breast cancer or prostate cancer.  It is the under-recognized public health crisis.  Kidney disease affects an estimated 37 million people in the US which is equivalent to 15% of the adult population; more than 1 in 7 adults.   

This episode we will talk with Pam about risk factors for kidney disease, symptoms, treatments and prevention.   

Tune in to learn the answers to the following questions:

1. What is kidney disease ?

2. What are the risk factors for kidney disease?

3. Have you seen an increase in kidney disease related to covid-19?

4. Does kidney disease run in families?

5. What causes kidney disease?

6. What symptoms or signs might alert us to potential kidney disease?

7. What should we do to keep our kidneys healthy?

8. How is kidney disease diagnosed?

9. If we have been diagnosed with kidney disease what are our treatment options?

10. What changes in diet can help with kidney disease?

11. What is kidney failure?

12. What is dialysis and how is it used to treat kidney failure?

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