Quotes about Kidney Failure

Not wanting to give everyone in your life one of your kidneys is not the same thing as hoping they die of kidney failure. Votes: 3

Yes - I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure. Votes: 3

Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure. Votes: 3

African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans. Votes: 3

For diabetes in particular, we know there's a relationship between lack of glucose regulation and complications like blindness and kidney failure. So if you were diabetic and you knew that you could get your glucose in a tight, normal range just by adjusting your lifestyle, wouldn't that be great? Votes: 3

Already from your own cells scientists can grow skin, cartilage, noses, blood vessels, bladders and windpipes. In the future, scientists will grow more complex organs, like livers and kidneys. The phrase 'organ failure' will disappear. Votes: 1

Altruism became the sole legitimate motivation for giving a kidney. And it is a partial - I say a partial failure. Votes: 0