Chronic kidney disease causes more deaths each year than breast cancer or prostate cancer, says the National Kidney Foundation®. In fact, the organization characterizes CKD as an under-recognized public health crisis. The American Kidney Fund® advises that an estimated 35.5 million Americans have kidney disease, and about 606,000 are living with kidney failure. Nine out of 10 people with kidney disease are unaware that they have it. The Kidney Foundation of Canada indicates four million people, or 10 percent of the population, had kidney disease as of 2022.
More than 52,000 Canadians were being treated for kidney failure that year. There is no cure for end-stage kidney disease, so individuals must protect their kidney health to avoid irreversible damage.
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