Diabetes is the leading cause of kidney failure.
Diabetes causes 44.9% of all new cases of kidney failure. In 2011 it was the primary diagnosis for 232,984 kidney failure patients.2
An estimated 25.8 million people have diabetes; 7 million of them are undiagnosed.8 About 40% of people with diabetes will develop CKD.7
African Americans with diabetes are 2.6 to 5.6 times more likely than whites to develop kidney disease.6
Most people (69%) participating in a 2011 nationwide survey by the American Kidney Fund could not name diabetes as a leading cause of kidney disease, despite the fact that over half (55%) had a loved one with diabetes. Source-American Kidney Fund
