Clinician's Roundtable

Improving CKD Awareness: Emphasizing the Risk in Patients Who Are Unaware

02.20.2024 - By ReachMDPlay

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Host: Ashley Baker, MSN, PMHNP

Guest: Chi D. Chu, MD, MAS

The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey found that kidney disease awareness among patients in the U.S. is very low. And alarmingly, the proportion of awareness has not changed much over the 15-year period of this study. To uncover more of the findings and how to improve CKD awareness, tune into this discussion with Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Ashley Baker as she takes a deep dive with Dr. Chi D. Chu, Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology at the University of California San Francisco and coauthor of the article published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases, titled “CKD Awareness Among US Adults by Future Risk of Kidney Failure.

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