Chronic Renal Disease
Klahr, S. / Cummings, Nancy B.![Chronic Renal Disease](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/154/15462585/CHSBZCOP0315462585.jpg)
Chronic renal disease has received increasing attention and concern since the passage in 1972 of PL 92-603, which provided coverage for end-stage renal disease (ESRD) treatment by the federal government. The human and economic costs of the ESRD program serve to emphasize the need to prevent or to arrest those diseases resulting in chronic renal failure, since none of the available treatments is without complications and/or side effects. The ES...