‘Each doctor has up to 80 patients with this pathology, it is also important to sensitize him on nutritional aspects’
Rome, March 17 (beraking latest news Salute) – “A general practitioner can have between 70 and 80 patients with chronic kidney disease. It is therefore important to sensitize doctors in the area also on dietary aspects. For this reason the regional departments must establish assistance therapists, which are multi-specialized but in which the figure of the general practitioner is preponderant and crucial. In fact, he is the first to intercept the patient and can better address him “. This was explained by the nephrologist Antonio Santoro, director of the scientific committee Aned (National Association of Hemodialysis Dialysis and Transplant) during the event ‘Convivio the recipe for living with chronic kidney disease anemia’, sponsored by Aned Onlus, with the contribution unconditional by Astellas Pharma and organized by BB&C Group.
“Anemia, a frequent complication particularly in the most advanced stages of chronic kidney disease – added Santoro – may depend on various factors such as the lack of iron from blood loss, reduced production of erythropoietin or insufficient food intake”.
It is necessary that those who follow the patient with chronic kidney disease, “first of all the general practitioner, identify the appearance of an anemia and implement those measures, both food and pharmacological, which allow to correct, at least partially, the anemic complication, which significantly affects the quality of life of patients with renal insufficiency “, he concluded.
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