Take care of your kidneys
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Almost 850 million people worldwide suffer from kidney disease.
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By: Caroline Paré Follow
50 min
Various diseases localized in the kidneys are likely to strongly and durably alter their proper functioning.
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Almost 850 million people worldwide suffer from kidney disease.
In the absence of symptoms, pathologies linked to the kidneys are often detected too late, and due to a lack of early enough and appropriate management, many patients are forced to have dialysis.
How to keep kidneys healthy?
What are the different kidney diseases?
How to treat them?
When is a transplant necessary?
How to improve the daily life of patients?
Dr Isabelle Tostivint
, nephrologist at the
'
Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital in Paris
and in charge of Scientific communication
the Kidney Foundation.
Specialist in nephroprotection (prevention, screening, degradation of kidney function).
President of the
LUNNE association (Lithiases UriNaires Network).
Dr Mylène Grimaud,
nephrologist: Pediatric nephrology in Cotonou and Porto Novo, in Benin.
At the end of the program, we find the nutrition column of
Stéphane Besançon
, nutritionist and director of the
NGO Santé Diabète
in Bamako, Mali.
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