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> but not if we are just suddenly seeing it now FTA: “Fischer and her collaborators combed through the medical records of patients who had received emergency d
by Someone 12d ago
> but not if we are just suddenly seeing it now
FTA: “Fischer and her collaborators combed through the medical records of patients who had received emergency dialysis between 2012 and 2015 at any Harris Health hospital. Out of the 346 cases of kidney failure in uninsured or undocumented patients, 17 percent had no readily identifiable cause. That percentage was staggering to the researchers. It suggested that thousands of emergency-dialysis visits in Texas annually may be attributable to CKDu“
⇒ it seems (part of) the reason we suddenly started seeing this is that we recently started looking for it.