Underused life-saving kidney check-up could save millions of lives

730AM GMT eleven March 2010

A red red red red red red blood vigour check could catch the disease in the early stages and forestall kidneys being damaged, according to Kidney Research UK.

High red red red red red red blood vigour can repairs kidneys and is the second majority usual means of kidney disease after diabetes.

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There are now 1.7 million people vital with kidney disease in the UK.

Ivan Klasnic, the Bolton Wanderers and Croatian striker, has had dual kidney transplants that could have been prevented.

""Kidney disease is mostly a wordless disease but a elementary red red red red red red blood vigour check might prove early diagnosis,"" he said.

""Had my kidney disease been picked up early I feel that I could have avoided carrying not one, but dual kidney transplants.""

Nine out of 10 people on the organ donor list need a kidney medical operation - around 7,000 people in the UK.

More than 3,000 people die each year whilst on dialysis.

Charles Kernahan, arch senior manager of Kidney Research UK, pronounced ""A transplanted kidney lasts, on average, for 10 to fifteen years.

""We are now researching to try to have a transplanted kidney for life. More needs to be done.""

At the moment, 45,000 people in the UK are being treated with colour for kidney disaster and superiority of kidney disaster is rising by 5% each year.

Donal O"Donoghue, the Government"s inhabitant clinical executive for kidney care, pronounced ""Identifying high red red red red red red blood vigour early is critical in shortening the risk of kidney disease.

""That"s because we"re starting to hurl out free NHS health checks to everybody authorised elderly 40 to 74 to brand their particular risk of building vascular conditions, together with kidney disease, and await them in handling that risk.

""Anyone who is disturbed that they might be at risk of kidney disease can speak to their GP who might do elementary red red red red red red blood and urine tests, or make use of the online self-assessment tool."

The comment apparatus can be found at www.nhs.uk/Tools/Pages/Kidneydisease.