European Kidney Health Code

The European Kidney Health Code aims to educate about the risks of chronic kidney disease (CKD) but also on ways of preventing it.

It provides information for healthcare professionals on actions individual citizens can take to help prevent Chronic Kidney Diseases.

Discover the risk factors

The European Kidney Health code and additional information on preventing chronic kidney disease (CKD) were developed based on scientific evidence. You can find below the different resources and references that explain this evidence.

Scientific justification

12 risk factors for chronic kidney diseases

Lifestyle Choices, Biological and Social Factors

  1. Unhealthy lifestyle
  2. Age and gender
  3. Harmful substances
  4. Barriers to good health

Kidney-Damaging Conditions and Diseases

 

  1. Lifestyle-related chronic diseases
  2. Prenatal & early life factors
  3. Conditions affecting the urinary system
  4. Living with one kidney
  5. Acute kidney injury

Kidney-Replacement Therapies

  1. Treatment adherence
  2. Waiting for a kidney transplantation
  3. Kidney replacement therapy-related complications

Slow down this silent, high burden disease!

Serious prevention of kidney disease through education on lifestyle choices can help reduce the number of people living with kidney disease and its rapid rise in the top ten of causes of death.

Signs of kidney damage manifest (too) late.
Early detection via existing simple and cheap tests is key!

The kidneyhealthcode.eu is one of the results of the PREVENTCKD project.
This project was co-financed by the European Union and the consortium was coordinated by EKHA (contract number 101101220).

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