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Actor Kamal Haasan Launches Website on Kidney Disease

Balaji Medical and Education Trust, the association working towards helping kidney failure patients and their families, has created the first-of-its-kind kidney disease education website known as www.sugarbp.org. The website was launched in presence of renowned actor Padma Shri Dr Kamal Haasan. The website is aimed at generating awareness about the relation between chronic kidney disease, diabetes and

hypertension. This initiative will help in creating alertness about chronic kidney disease among the general public. According to Dr Rajan Ravichandran, Director, MIOT Institute of Nephrology, Chennai, "Diabetes and hypertension both can lead to chronic kidney disease. Therefore the website becomes all the more crucial for patients suffering from these diseases. It can help in dealing with the chronic kidney disease in the early stages and stop the progression of a possible kidney failure."

Said Dr Kamal Haasan, "I urge people to go for regular preventive health check ups to identify any possible chronic ailments. Preventive measures can help avoid the patients and their families from going through the burden of diseases like kidney failure, diabetes and heart problems."

Chronic kidney disease usually does not show any signs in the early stages because of the body's adaptation leading to absence of early symptoms. By the time the symptoms emerge, the patient usually requires complicated and costly medical treatment.

EH News Bureau