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ESRD - end-stage renal disease
Future research in the form of clinical trials is needed to test interventions to manage the severe dyspnea and related symptoms that occur in patients with cancer and end-stage lung disease.
Hypertension is a common medical problem in the United States, occurring in as many as 43 million individuals [ 1 ] . While end-stage renal failure represents the second most common cause of end-stage renal disease [ 2 ] , perhaps only 1 in 2,500 hypertensive patients develops clinically important hypertensive nephrosclerosis.
It is also the leading cause of both end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and non-traumatic lower extremity amputations (LEAs) in Canada, accounting for 32% and 50% of new cases, respectively [ 8 9 ] . Four hundred new cases of blindness can be attributed to diabetes each year, making diabetes the leading cause of new blindness in Canadian adults [ 10 ] . Many of the complications of diabetes are particularly debilitating to the patient, accompanied not only by a personal physical and emotional burden, but a significant economic one for the patient, family members, the nation as a whole and the health care system in particular.
As with most chronic degenerative kidney diseases, the gradual decline of renal function at later stages of DNP is invariably associated with tubular epithelial degeneration (TED), also called tubular atrophy, and interstitial fibrosis (IF), hallmarks of degeneration to end-stage renal failure [3].