Abstract: When the UK prime minister, live on national TV with the chief medical officer Chris Whitty, advised vulnerable patients—including those with chronic kidney disease—to minimise their social contact, it should have been a welcome surprise for Tess Harris, chief executive of the Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) charity. But recognition of this often unseen group provided no pleasure. Instead, it led to confusion. Chronic kidney disease covers people with a wide range of symptom severity. Those at stage one usually have no obvious symptoms, or ...
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Intensive care medicine
Bioinformatics