Ageing affects kidney function, just as it does for the rest of our body. Causing reduction in the kidney function as a process of ageing.
Beyond the age of 40 years, has a drop in kidney function by 1% every year.
Thus, at the age of 80, you will only have 60% of the kidneys functioning for you. And because it is the normal dictum of life, if an 80 year old has 60% of kidney function, that individual is not labelled as someone with kidney disease.
Diabetes Mellitus Type II and hypertension are two of the common causes for chronic kidney disease in the world.
Having both diabetes and hypertension simultaneously increases the risk of developing kidney disease by five fold. These individuals need to be more careful and get their kidneys evaluated for their function annually.
On 26 Nov, 2023, Seniors Today hosted their weekly Health Live Webinar with Dr Jatin Kothari, Director Nephrology and Chief Consultant in Renal Transplant Medicine at Nanavati Max Super Speciality Hospital, Mumbai and he spoke on and answered questions about Kidney Care for Senior Citizens. Watch the complete video for more details.
Dr Jatin Kothari is Director – Nephrology & Chief Consultant – Renal Transplant Medicine at Nanavati Max Super Speciality Hospital, Mumbai.
He is a DM in Nephrology and MD in Medicine from Bombay University following his MBBS also from Mumbai. He has done a Clinical fellowship in Nephrology and Transplantation from the University of Toronto. He is a Visiting ISPD Scientist at the University of Missouri Health Sciences, Columbia, USA, an International Society of Nephrology Education Ambassador, he has done the ISN Global Outreach Programme, the International Transplant Observership at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA, and the Roche Preceptorship in kidney transplantation, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA. He has an ISN-ANIO Fellowship in Nephropathology and Preceptorship in Kidney Transplantation at the University of Toulouse in France.
Watch the complete video for more details.
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