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Review

Chronic kidney disease in primary care

Prabir Kumar Mitra¹   John R Bradley²

¹ St James Medical Practice, King's Lynn, Norfolk PE30 4ET, UK E mail: mitra_prabir{at}yahoo.co.uk
² Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, UK E mail: john.bradley{at}addenbrookes.nhs.uk

SUMMARY

It has been estimated that chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects about one in 200 of the population in the UK. There is an increased awareness of the need to identify patients in primary care with CKD at an earlier stage, so that treatments can be initiated to delay progression and prevent complications and appropriate nephrological referral can be made. In this article we will review how measures to identify patients with CKD can improve its management.

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