Kidney disease includes conditions that damage your kidneys and decrease their ability to keep you healthy by doing the jobs listed. If kidney disease gets worse, wastes can build to high levels in your blood and make you feel sick. You may develop complications like high blood pressure, anemia (low blood count), weak bones, poor nutritional health and nerve damage. Also, kidney disease increases your risk of having heart and blood vessel disease. These problems may happen slowly over a long period of time. Chronic kidney disease may be caused by diabetes, high blood pressure and other disorders. Early detection and treatment can often keep chronic kidney disease from getting worse. When kidney disease progresses, it may eventually lead to kidney failure, which requires dialysis or a kidney transplant to maintain life.

Kidney disease is a main health obstruction in America, causing problems some eight million Americans.

There are no obvious symptoms. According to latest investigation published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases, almost half of people with a complicated kind of kidney disease do not realize they have weak or failing kidneys.

Early kidney disease is a silent problem, like high blood pressure. Kidney disease can become kidney failure with little or no warning, and is usually discovered right before the kidneys fail.

If you have diabetes, high blood pressure, or a family member with kidney failure, a doctor or health care professional should test your blood and urine for early signs of kidney disease.