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1.Answer the questions on the basis of your understanding of the following paragraph and related studied concepts. Chronic kidney disease or CKD, causes more deaths than breast cancer or prostate cancer. It is the under-recognized public health crisis. CKD means kidneys are damaged and losing their ability to keep you healthy. But as CKD gets worse , wastes can build up in blood and one gets sick. One may develop other problems like anemia, high blood pressure, weak bones and nerve damage. The two main causes of kidney disease are diabetes and high blood pressure. a) Name the basic filtration unit of kidneys. b)What is the main function of kidneys in humans? c)What process is involved as a substitute for the patients with kidney damage? d)What are the two main causes of kidney disease? * 5 points a) Ureters b) Carry blood from heart c) only transplantation d) Anemia and Cancer a) Nephrons b) To filter the waste from blood c) Dialysis or Transplantation d) Diabetes and High BP |
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Answer» Answer: a) nephron b) Their main job is to cleanse the blood of toxins and transform the waste into urine. Each kidney weighs about 160 grams and gets rid of between one and one-and-a-half litres of urine per day. The two kidneys together filter 200 litres of fluid every 24 hours. c) Hemodialysis is a procedure where a dialysis machine and a special filter CALLED an artificial kidney, or a dialyzer, are used to CLEAN your blood. To get your blood into the dialyzer, the doctor needs to make an access, or entrance, into your blood vessels. This is done with minor surgery, usually to your d) In the United States the two leading causes of kidney failure, also called end stage kidney disease or ESRD, are diabetes (also called TYPE 2, or adult ONSET diabetes) and high blood pressure |
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