Kidney Facts

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• 52 million American’s suffer from this disease or at risk to have it.

• This number will double in 20 years.• 26 million of these people are not aware

they are at risk. • Over 115,000 Americans are waiting for

organ transplants;18 Americans die every day while waiting for an organ.

• Everyone with high blood pressure, high cholesterol or diabetes, are at risk. Children are highly at risk.

• The cost to maintain an individual with this disease is $106,000 annually plus $74,000 in medication annually. Treatment often lasts for years.

• To end this disease for an individual it Is $107,000 and $17,000 per year in medication.

The Truth About Kidney Disease

An educational study on the alarming trends of Kidney Disease… how it affects us emotionally, financially, physically and socially

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Did you know?

• 26 million Americans have Chronic Kidney Disease and millions of others are at increased risk

• 548,000 people in the United States have end-stage renal disease (kidney failure so advanced that it cannot be reversed)

– This number will grow by 50% during the next 20 years


Source: National Kidney Foundation, 2010; WHO 2009; Leading the fight against kidney disease, ANS, 2010

Sadly, OVER 87,812 lives are taken from Kidney Failure each year…


Source: National Kidney Foundation, 2010; Emedicinehealth , Kidney Transplant, 2005; WHO 2009

• And… many more deaths are caused from Kidney Failure but are deemed as something else

– Up to 20% of people with diabetes die of kidney failure

– 50% of people with kidney failure die from heart disease

• Kidney Failure can be connected to…

The harsh truth is…

• Kidney failure cannot be treated with conventional medical treatments such as drugs

• Only 2 treatments allow individuals to continue living: Dialysis or a Kidney Transplant

© Laurence Verga Consulting - 2010 6Source: Emedicinehealth , Kidney Transplant, 2005

Many are just waiting while they endure

• 2000: 47,000 U.S. people were waiting for a kidney transplant

• 2010: 83,950 were waiting

• It can take up to 7 years for an individual to find a kidney… While they wait they survive by dialysis…

• 15,430 Americans received a transplant in 2010


Source: Emedicinehealth , Kidney Transplant, 2005; Kidney and Urologic Diseases Statistics for the United States, National Kidney and Urological Disease Information Clearinghouse, June 2010; Shorter Wait Means Longer Life For Kidney Transplant Candidates, Science Daily, March 2009National Kidney Foundation

The truth about Dialysis

Dialysis is like chemotherapy – other than it is a short term mask, versus a cure

•The number of U.S. dialysis centers have increased approximately 4% each year

•1998: 3,394 dialysis centers

•2008: 4,957 dialysis centers

•382,343 End stage renal disease patients are on dialysis at least 3 times a week


Source: USA Today, Dialysis treatment in USA: High costs, high death rates, Rita Rubin, Aug. 2009

Why so many dialysis centers?

• From 1996 to 2007, there was a 57% increase in the number of people receiving dialysis treatments


Source: USA Today, Dialysis treatment in USA: High costs, high death rates, Rita Rubin, Aug. 2009

Which causes billions to be spent

• The Medicare system alone spends $25 billion on dialysis treatments each year, and it is projected to increase

• Dialysis treatments cost between $4,341 and $9,760 per month depending on frequency and insurance coverage

– Totaling $117,120 per year

Not only is dialysis monetarily draining, but emotionally as well…


Source: United States Renal Data System's Annual Data Report, 2009; Model for Implantable Artificial Kidney to Replace Dialysis Unveiled, Science Daily, September, 2010

What is it like to have to survive through dialysis?

• For 2 ½ years Amanda received dialysis treatments that lasted 4 hours long and left her exhausted, in pain and stressed

• Her food intake was limited and water intake reduced to 500cc a day to reduce the risk of edema


Source: Kidney Failure, Dialysis And My Fight for Normality, Hub Pages, 2008

“When your body is not ridding itself of salts, you feel like you've had 3 fast food meals without being able to drink... It’s a form of torture… I played the clown, juggling these values... Fighting for time, fighting to retain my health until I could have a transplant”

The truth about kidney transplants

Kidney transplants are one of the most successful transplant procedures today…

– Individuals who receive a kidney from a live donor have a 96% success rate


Source: Kidney and Urologic Diseases Statistics for the United States, National Kidney and Urological Disease Information Clearinghouse, June 2010; Kidney and Urologic Diseases Statistics for the United States, National Kidney and Urological Disease Information Clearinghouse, June 2010

Transplants are more cost effective

• According to Medicare expenditures, kidney transplants are by far the most cost-effective kidney treatment

• A kidney transplant procedure costs approximately $110,000

• One year worth of dialysis treatments can cost up to $117,000


Source: ESRD as a Window into America’s Cost Crisis in Health Care, ASN, Felix Knauf and Peter S. Aronson, September 2009

Total Medicare Expenditures for Kidney Therapy Treatments

The benefits outweigh the cost

• When a person receives a kidney they are cured and able to fully function for the next 20 years of their life

• Ask yourself…

“How much heartache and money could be saved each year if more kidney transplants occurred?”

“How many lives could be saved?”


Medicare spends $72,200 per year for dialysis patients immunosuppressive drug coverage

Medicare spends $17,000 per year for transplant survivors immunosuppressive drug coverage

Sources: US Renal Data System, 2010 Annual Data Report www.usrds.org OPTN.transplant.hrsa.gov Journal of the American Medical Association, November, 2007.


Immunosuppressive Drug Coverage

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Medicare pays $57.5 billion annually for end stage renal disease

That’s 28% of all Medicare costs

Medicare pays $72,064 for dialysis per patient, per year

Medicare pays $106,000 per transplant

Medicare spending on a dialysis patient per year $72,064; on a transplant patient $16,884

Sources: US Renal Data System, 2010 Annual Data Report www.usrds.org OPTN.transplant.hrsa.gov Journal of the American Medical Association, November, 2007.


The Price of Renal Failure

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Increasing kidney

donations will substantially

reduce Medicare costs…

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The Price of Renal Failure

The results of receiving a new kidney are immeasurable…

• After 2 ½ years of dialysis Amanda was informed they had found her a kidney

• She disliked dialysis so much that the idea the transplant could fail never occurred to her

• The transplant was successful…


Source: Kidney Failure, Dialysis And My Fight for Normality, Hub Pages, 2008

“I feel eternally grateful. I have been given a new life. I am changed. The simplest acts are amazing to me. To be able to drink a half-liter of water, without fearing for my life. To cave-in on occasion and eat fast food. Sleeping in, running. Things I dreamt of for years, accessible to me once more… It doesn't bother me that I have someone else’s organ, because this is exactly what I would want my organs to be used for. I hope that I can save someone's life one day, and repay the debt.”

You are the cure!


People are born with 2 kidneys, however, we

only need 1 to fully function

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