One out of five Nigerians has kidney disease – Expert
By: Chioma Umeha A nephrologist, Dr Ebun Bamgboye, has said that ongoing studies in Nigeria have confirmed that one out of every five persons had one stage of kidney disease or the other. Bamgboye, who works at St. Nicholas Hospital, Lagos, said in an agency report, that the studies also showed that black people’s kidneys were prone to renal failure. Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia, defines renal failure as a medical condition in which the kidneys fail to adequately filter waste products from the blood. “Studies are ongoing that in Nigeria, probably about one out of every five of us has one stage of chronic kidney disease or the other. Not all of them have got to the stage where they required dialysis of course, the nephrologist said. “But, if you are looking at individuals who have chronic kidney disease in requirement of renal replacement therapy, that is, either dialysis or transplant, you are looking at 100 new cases per million populations every year. He added: “So, i