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- Kidney disease is the ninth leading cause of death in the U.S.
- One of out of every 20 Americans, more than 20 million individuals, suffers from diseases of the kidney and urinary tract.
- In Northern California, more than 15,000 people have chronic renal disease - requiring either dialysis or a kidney transplant to stay alive.
- Right now 78,244 kidney patients nationwide are waiting for kidney transplants. There is a critical shortage of organ donors. Only half of those waiting for a life-saving transplant will receive one.
- Twenty percent of all Americans suffering from chronic renal failure might have prevented it had they followed recommendations for treatment of high blood pressure.
- African-Americans between the ages of 30 and 49 develop kidney failure related to high blood pressure eight times more often than Caucasians.
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