Dr. Esteban Kosak 
Chronic kidney disease encompasses a wide array of diseases that continuously damage the kidneys leading to a failure on their function.
The kidneys are two. They are located in a part of the body called retroperitoneum. Hence, the location of the kidneys will be in the lower back, each one alongside the spinal column.
Furthermore, the kidney’s function is vital for all the body functionalities. They clean blood from waste and regulate many important processes occurring every second within it, including producing necessary hormones.
Therefore, when the kidneys stop their activities, most of the healthy and regular processes occurring in the body will come to a halt. For sure, it can lead to complications and even death.
Chronic kidney disease mostly affects the older population. However, it is possible, as indeed occurs, that it affects the younger people too.
Importantly, this disease is the ninth cause for which people die in the United States. Besides, it is critical to note that not only this disease kills itself, but it enhances many other cardiovascular problems like strokes or heart attacks.
At its early beginnings, chronic kidney disease does not produce overt symptoms. However, many conditions that are very common amongst the population like high blood pressure and diabetes silently harm the kidneys.
So, patients tend to give importance to those conditions, and they do not know that underneath there is progressive damage in such a vital organ. With the symptoms’ appearance, there is at least 50% of damage to the kidneys, which they can no longer compensate. Hence, the overt symptoms of the condition begin. Then, people will look for medical assistance, but there is already much harm done.
Sadly, the end of the road for this condition without treatment is kidney failure if it does not kill you before with a complication.
This tool emerges as a possibility to test the likelihood of you having or developing in the future this condition.
Many risk factors can tell about the harm somebody’s kidneys are receiving. Therefore, if having risk factors, those people could be at risk of developing chronic kidney disease.
Nowadays, doctors systematically search for people that are unaware that this condition exists and have those risk factors. Then, they will be subject to many analyses in order to confirm the diagnosis.
It is important to note that the diagnosis of this disease encompasses several tests. And, there are a lot of elements to take into account for the final assessment of each patient.
However, this tool gathers the most important signs, symptoms, and risk factors for having or possibly developing this condition. Hence, it would tell anybody who uses it the likelihood of precisely that. Despite that, further evaluation by your doctor is still required.
The most important feature of this chronic kidney disease symptoms checker is that it is free and would only take you a few minutes to complete it.
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Do you have more than 60 years?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have been diagnosed with hypertension (high blood pressure)?
- Yes
- No
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Does this diagnosis of hypertension (high blood pressure) was more than ten years ago? (if you don’t have hypertension just answer no)
- Yes
- No
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Do you currently take medication for lowering your high blood pressure? (if you don’t have hypertension just answer no)
- Yes
- No
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Do you consume daily any pain-killers, such as aspirin, ibuprofen, diclofenac, etc.?
- Yes
- No
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Do you consume weekly any pain-killers, such as aspirin, ibuprofen, diclofenac, etc.?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have been diagnosed with high blood cholesterol levels? (dyslipidemia)
- Yes
- No
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Do you currently take a medication for lowering your cholesterol blood levels? (if you don’t have dyslipidemia just answer no)
- Yes
- No
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Do you smoke cigarettes?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have been diagnosed with diabetes?
- Yes
- No
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Do you currently take medication for your diabetes? (if you don’t have diabetes just answer no)
- Yes
- No
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Does this diagnosis of diabetes have more than ten years with you? (if you don’t have diabetes just answer no)
- Yes
- No
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Do you have obesity? (please search in google the “BMI formula,” and with your weight and height it will calculate you that diagnosis)
- Yes
- No
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Was more than three years ago when you did your last medical checkup of blood sugar, blood pressure, cholesterol, and overall health?
- Yes
- No
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Does any of your family members have been diagnosed with kidney problems?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have been diagnosed with LUPUS (systemic lupus erythematous) or rheumatoid arthritis?
- Yes
- No
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Have you been diagnosed with a kidney stone disease and has had more than three episodes in your life?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have been diagnosed in your early childhood with kidney problems or malformations?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have been diagnosed with hepatitis B or C?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have been diagnosed with an infection by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have been diagnosed with syphilis?
- Yes
- No
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Do you nowadays or in the past have injected heroin?
- Yes
- No
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Did you have been told in the past to have kidney infections?
- Yes
- No
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If you are a male, and over 40 years, have you been diagnosed with prostate enlargement (benign prostatic hypertrophy)?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have bloody urine? (blood in your urine that gives it a reddish appearance)
- Yes
- No
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Lately, do you have been urinating many times more than you usually used to?
- Yes
- No
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Do your eyes swell?
- Yes
- No
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Do your legs swell?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have shortness of breath?
- Yes
- No
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Do you feel fatigued or weak?
- Yes
- No
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Does your skin is very itchy all the time?
- Yes
- No
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Lately, do you have been experiencing nausea, vomits, or diarrhea?
- Yes
- No
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Do you a decrease in your sexual desire, including for males erectile dysfunction?
- Yes
- No
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Do you have been tested for proteins in your urine within the last year?
- Yes
- No
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