Chapter 9

Kidney failure is a life-threatening event. Patient Information on Kidney Disease. Learn about end-stage renal disease, diabetes and kidney disease, kidney stones, and polycystic kidney disease from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Includes fact sheets and statistics for renal disease in the U.S.

NIH hosts a website entitled Patient Information Documents on Urologic Diseases. Here the user can learn more about bladder control problems in women, impotence in men, cystitis, kidney stones, Peyronie=s disease, prostate enlargement, and other urinary tract problems. Statistics on this incidence of urinary tract diseases in the United States are available here.


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