Kidney Friends

Number of Canadians living with kidney failure up
substantially in last decade..

Quote:A new report says the number of Canadians living with end-stage kidney disease has risen 57 per cent over the past decade, which is actually a slight improvement on the last report on the problem.

An earlier report from the Canadian Institute for Health Information showed there was a 70 per cent increase in the number of people living with end-stage renal failure over the period from 1996 to 2006. The new report, which covers the period from 1999 to 2008, says 36,600 Canadians were living with end-stage renal failure at the end of 2008.

Nearly half of those people were living on dialysis, but 41 per cent were people who had received a kidney transplant.

The report says the aging of the Canadian population and increasing rates of diabetes are among the key reasons for the rising number of cases of renal failure.

The highest rate by age group is among those 75 and older, though the rate in that age group has been slowly declining since 2005.

I hope that we will see the rate of kidney transplant recipient numbers,
going back on dialysis also drop.

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