Satellite Healthcare, a leading national not-for-profit and the sixth greatest contributor of patient-centered dialysis and kidney disease services, marked World Kidney Day today by releasing a distinctive issue to its staff members and the community at large: Put yourself in the shoes of someone with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) by making a single adjustment to your daily life. Eat less salt.
One in 3 American adults has hypertension, or high blood pressure, and it is 1 of the most important risk factors for developing CKD and, finally, experiencing kidney failure needing dialysis treatment to stay alive. When someone is diagnosed with CKD, 1 of the very first things they are generally guided to do is drastically lower their sodium intake in case to lower their blood pressure. Eating less salt also decreases the threat of heart disease and stroke.
“Our sufferers often tell us how difficult it is for them to slash the rate of salt in their diets, and we realized we could better understand them, and better serve them, if we tried to do the similar thing ourselves,” claimed Rory Pace, Director of Nutrition Services at Satellite Healthcare.
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