Urban, non-diabetic, and at risk: The silent kidney crisis Hyderabad can’t ignore

According to a recent study by the Indian Council of Medical Research, one in every 14 people in Telangana is suffering from impaired kidney function. An emerging new pattern of kidney disease is silently creeping in Hyderabad, and it's not among elderly or diabetic people. A recently published study by nephrologists from Osmania General Hospital (OGH) and Apollo Hospitals in the Indian Journal of Nephrology (August 2024) has sounded a warning about a Chronic Kidney Disease of no known aetiology (CKDu) now striking younger, apparently healthy individuals.

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