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>> A doctor speaks with a patient in his office.
>> What are the symptoms of kidney disease?
>> Chronic kidney disease is what we sometimes call the silent disease.
>> Uhmm-hmm.
>> And what that means is, is that most people have no symptoms.
They don't feel any way until the disease is pretty advanced.
For that reason, we need to do routine testing in people at risk to identify patients
with kidney disease because that allows us to identify the patients
and to begin treating early in the course of disease.