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What is the mortality rate of kidney disease?


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Kidneys:

  1. Kidneys are the principal organs of the excretory system.
  2. Kidneys are responsible for the filtration of blood and the removal of toxic wastes from the body.

Kidney diseases mortality:

  1. The crude mortality rate for people with renal failure was 134 per 1000 person-years, compared with 30 per 1000 person-years in group 1 and 34 per 1000 person-years in group 2; The mortality rate is 4.0.
  2. The mortality rate of kidney disease depends on factors like age, sex, and the stage of the disease.
  3. If we consider stage 5 kidney disease which means total kidney failure then, the life expectancy of men around 30-35 years of age is around 14 years.
  4. The same for women in the same age group is around 13 years.

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