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Chronic Kidney Disease
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- What Happens
- What Increases Your Risk
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- Treatment Overview
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Health Tools help you make wise health decisions or take action to improve your health.
 | Decision Points focus on key medical care decisions that are important to many health problems. |
| Kidney failure: What type of dialysis should I have? | |
 | Actionsets are designed to help people take an active role in managing a health condition. |
| Diabetes: Checking Your Blood Sugar | |
| High Blood Pressure: Checking Your Blood Pressure at Home | |
| Kidney Disease: Changing Your Diet | |
| By: | Healthwise Staff | Last Revised: May 11, 2011 |
| Medical Review: | E. Gregory Thompson, MD - Internal Medicine Mitchell H. Rosner, MD - Nephrology | |
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