May 31, 2017
The American Kidney Fund’s Kidney Action Day will be held on June 6, 2017 to help raise awareness about kidney disease in Chicago’s minority communities. Michael Spigler, Vice President of Patient Services and Kidney Disease Education for The American Kidney Fund said one of the reasons why kidney disease is
very high in the African American community is because of a lack of healthy and quality food choices.
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“Unlike like colon cancer or breast cancer, there is not really a set protocol on when people should get tested for kidney disease,” Spigler said. “What a doctor would usually do is look at what your risk factors are. So, having high blood pressure, diabetes or having a family member that has kidney failure